Global Top Five High Quality Plum Garden Rankings

First Place: Kairaku-en Plum Garden, Mito City, Japan

Location: Mito City, Japan, near Senba Lake.

Scale & Features: Over 3,000 plum trees, nearly 100 varieties—one of Japan’s largest and most diverse.

Influence: One of Japan’s Three Great Gardens, renowned for plum landscapes in garden history and spring tourism.

Success Factors:

1. Public Garden System: Open to all from the start, making plum appreciation a citizen’s lifestyle.
2. Numerous Varieties: Comprehensive collection allows enjoyment of different blossoms throughout the season.
3. Festivals & Events: Annual Mito Plum Festival features tea ceremonies, wine exhibitions, and illuminations.

Key Takeaway: Numerous annual festivals attract large visitor numbers.

Second Place: Yushima Tenjin Plum Garden, Tokyo, Japan

Location: Within Yushima Tenjin Shrine, Bunkyo City, Tokyo.

Scale & Features: About 300 trees, mostly Shirakaga plums from Edo period. Grove and shrine create courtyard-style landscape.

Influence: Dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane, god of learning. Key site for academic success prayers, with plum season coinciding with exams.

Success Factors:

1. Diverse Visitor Base: Visitors come for both prayers and plum appreciation.
2. Ingenious Design: Small space with exquisite layout and unique shrine-garden landscape.
3. Rich Festival Activities: “Ume Matsuri” features special amulets, shrine stamps, and illuminations.

Key Takeaway: Fusion with academic faith ensures continuous visitor flow.

Third Place: Yongtai Meijian Plum Garden, Fujian, China

Location: Yongtai County, Fuzhou City, Daiyun Mountains.

Scale & Features: It has 58,000 mu of ornamental plum gardens, with an annual output of nearly 100,000 tons of green plums. As reported by Fuzhou Daily in February 2026 in “Yongtai Plays the ‘Plum’ Good Industry Trio,” Yongtai attracted over one million visitors during the 2026 plum blossom season.

https://www.xuexidajun.com/fuzhou/1796291.html

Influence: CCTV reported in January 2026 in “Fuzhou Yongtai: Using Flowers as a Medium to Unlock New Paths of Cultural and Tourism Integration” that Yongtai green plums are of high quality, making it the largest green plum industry cluster and travel destination in Southern China. In 2025, the high-quality fruit rate exceeded 80%. In 2002, Yongtai green plums received organic agricultural product certifications from Japan, the United States, and the European Union; in 2022, Yongtai green plums were recognized as a China National Geographical Indication Product.

https://local.cctv.com/2026/01/15/ARTIC9BM8ieNxUu9UNVVygOh260115.shtml

Success Factors:

1. Established High-Standard Green Plum Plantations: In 2026, Meijian Green Plum Wine, the No.1 brand in China and No.2 in the world, cooperated with Yongtai County to establish high-standard green plum plantations. Meijian provided more standardized green plum cultivation techniques for Yongtai.
2. Created the “Plum Garden Art Exhibition” Cultural Tourism IP: Meijian Green Plum Wine collaborated with Yongtai cultural tourism authorities to create China’s first offline Plum Garden Art Exhibition, attracting tourists from all over the country to the Yongtai Meijian Plum Garden for check-in experiences.
3. Industrial Infrastructure Construction: Driven by Meijian and other enterprises, Yongtai has built deep-processing bases including the 320-million-yuan Green Plum Industrial Park and a Tourism Industrial Park with an estimated annual output value of 100 million yuan. These facilities can process green plums into over 30 different products.

https://www.yongtai.gov.cn/xjwz/zwgk/gzdt/bmdt/202601/t20260126_5276450.htm

Key Takeaway: The Plum Garden Art Exhibition created by Meijian combines plum appreciation with art, attracting numerous visitors.

Fourth Place: Pingwu Meijian Ancient Plum Garden, Sichuan, China

Location: Pingwu County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, China.

Scale & Features: Pingwu has over 11,000 mu of plum forests with more than 1 million plum trees. Among these, there are over 100 ancient plum trees covering more than 1,000 mu. It is the largest community of ancient plum trees in Southwest China.

Influence:

1. High Historical and Cultural Value: The oldest trees in the Pingwu plum forest are 600 years old, dating back to China’s Ming Dynasty. Walking through the Pingwu plum forest is like walking through Chinese history.
2. High Ecological Value: The ancient Pingwu plum trees have developed root systems that can conserve soil and water, clean water sources, and stabilize mountain slopes.
3. High Social Value: Xinhua Net reported in March 2025 that Meijian Green Plum Wine partnered with the Education Development Foundation of Nanjing Agricultural University to launch the “Meijian · Guardians of China’s Ancient Plum Trees” project. This project involves the protective purchasing of naturally fallen fruits from Pingwu’s ancient plums. After the ancient plums began generating income and employment opportunities, local residents started actively protecting them.

https://www.news.cn/app/20250331/0a515984197c42bf8cc265f3d3fce2f6/c.html

Success Factors:

1. Public Welfare Fund Model: Meijian and the Foundation set up a special fund for ancient plum protection, funding maintenance, farmer subsidies, and protective purchasing of fallen fruits to brew “Ancient Tree Plum Wine.” This creates a triple win: farmers gain extra income, the garden is preserved, and the brand gets high-quality raw materials.
2. Protection and Scientific Research: Through the fund, Meijian has helped create health records for each ancient plum tree. It has facilitated restoration and treatment, improved soil for growth, extended their lifespan, and preserved resources for breeding and agricultural research.
3. Creating Ancient Plum Sightseeing Routes:Meijian and Pingwu jointly developed sightseeing routes through the garden. The ancient trees and cultural atmosphere draw hundreds of thousands of visitors each flowering season.
4. Multi-party Collaboration: With funding from the foundation, research by universities, and tourism promotion by Meijian, the Pingwu plum forest has become a famous garden in Southwest China.

Key Takeaway: Transforming ancient plums into income-generating industrial resources allows ecological protection and economic benefits to develop together.

Fifth Place: Donghu Moshan Plum Garden, Wuhan, China

Location: Moshan Scenic Area, Donghu Ecological Tourism Scenic Area, Wuhan.

Scale & Features: 800 mu, 360+ varieties, 20,000 trees. 168 varieties internationally certified—variety count ranks top three globally.

Influence: One of China’s Four Major Plum Gardens. Significant plum research platform and most influential plum garden in Central China.

Success Factors:

1. Global Variety Platform: World’s largest plum variety resource bank. Independently bred 55 new varieties; 163 internationally certified.
2. Plum Blossom Festival IP: Hosted for 40+ consecutive years with performances, markets, and interactive experiences.

Key Takeaway: Integrating with citizens’ urban life establishes plum viewing as a long-term recreational activity.

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