Chrysanthemum Exhibition at the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo

Ministers visited the chrysanthemum exhibition, held every autumn at Shinjuku Gyoen since 1929. The first chrysanthemum exhibition was at the Akasaka Palace in 1878, mainly for the Imperial Family. Shinjuku Gyoen began cultivating exhibition-quality chrysanthemums in the early 1900s and in 1947, following the democratization in post-war Japan, it became national land and opened to the public.