A shower of wisteria The 160-year-old trees are supported by a trellis that stretches for 2,000 square meters, with an estimated 160,000 bunches of flowers that waft a sweet aroma through the air.

Hysteria over Japanese wisteria might be overstating ... The trees stand on a 3,000-square-meter wisteria trellis at Susanoo Shrine, where many other plants are also in bloom.

The museum, which sits on a 29,000-square-meter site, has been converted from the traditional Japanese ... the large wisteria tree produces flowers growing along a trellis measuring 80 tatami ...