On 3 November Japan celebrates Bunka no Hi (文化の日), Culture Day, a national holiday for the arts and learning. This year the Jerusalem Botanical Garden is marking it with an afternoon of Japanese botany, bonsai, architecture and tea on Tuesday, 3 November 2026, from 15:00 to 19:00.
Programme#
- 15:00: Opening performance on the Japanese bamboo flute, “Mifu: Subtle Wind” (微風)
- 15:15: “Japan in Green: a journey into Japanese botany”, by Dr. Uri Fragman-Sapir, the garden’s scientific director. He covers Japanese habitats, agriculture, gardening and plant products.
- 16:00: “Bonsai: a whole world in a small tree”, by Shai Cohen, who looks after the garden’s bonsai collection, with a short tour of the collection
- 17:15: Houses in contemporary Japanese architecture, through the work of architect Kazuyuki Oka and the writer Uketsu. Given by Dr. Erez Golani Solomon of Bezalel, chair of the Israel Association for Japanese Studies.
- 18:15: “Green Tea for Peace VI”, a live tea ceremony led by Dr. Kazuko Kamada Medr with the Hebrew University Asian Studies department’s tea ceremony club
The talks are in Hebrew. The architecture lecture is a curtain-raiser for the association’s international conference at Bezalel on 4–5 November.
Practical information#
- When: Tuesday, 3 November 2026, 15:00–19:00
- Where: Jerusalem Botanical Garden, Yehuda Burla St 1, Jerusalem
- Cost: ₪89, register and pay through the garden’s event page
- Questions: info@botanic.co.il, 02-679-4012, or WhatsApp 052-447-2409
More Japanese events in Tel Aviv this season: the Embassy of Japan’s Friday lecture on the dark side of cuteness and Yotam Lieberman on working in the anime industry.
Source: Jerusalem Botanical Garden, via the Japanese Language Centre’s community channel.
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