Celebrating Japan's exquisite beauty and tradition, Bellagio's Conservatory & Botanical Garden is displaying its amazing spring exhibition through June 15, featuring the first intricate replicas of Osaka Castle, one of Japan's most iconic landmarks.
The conservatory takes guests on a cultural tour through many of the most vibrant elements related to the rising sun's land, including delicate cherry blossoms, elegant butterflies, and thousands of fresh tulips, water lilies, and chrysanthemums. Featuring 65,000 fresh flowers, the spring exhibition honors the awakening of nature and the flowers of the new season with Japanese influence everywhere. While traditional teahouses honor the grace, manners, and hospitality of old Japanese tea ceremony, butterflies, which are signs of good luck in Japanese culture, are found flying throughout the exhibition.
"Including an amazing replica of Osaka Castle in our conservatory gives us a unique opportunity to share a part of Japanese culture with tens of thousands of visitors every day," said Jim Mullen, president and CEO of MGM Resorts International. "We aim to arouse conversations and curiosity about this amazing country and its storied castle."
Entering the Conservatory & Botanic Gardens, a stunning 30-foot-tall replica of Osaka Castle stands in the center of the West Bed. Reproduced in exact detail, the Edo period landmark features glowing golden trimming and has two Japanese-style stone lanterns flanked to illuminate the castle's path. Colorful butterflies flap throughout the bed, including a complex landscape composed of 2,000 freshly cut carnations. Immediately below the castle, a waterfall flows into a large pond highlighted by three vibrant fountains, suggesting Belagio's world-famous seaport along a Las Vegas strip.
To ensure that the exhibition accurately conveys the historical and cultural significance of iconic Osaka Castle, designers Ed Libby and Bellagio's horticulture team collaborated with Dentsu Live Inc.'s Japanese producer Noriko Minai and her team to bring the vision to life with precise combinations of colors and flowers. The creative process involved months of reviewing detailed visual assets and models to create Bellagio's masterpieces, which are true and also unique to life.
Noriko Minai, senior producer at Dentsu Live Inc., said, "It is an honor to be a part of this project that will attract thousands of visitors from Las Vegas. It is a very precious opportunity for us to introduce one of Japan's historical and cultural treasures to visitors from all over the world. I hope that people who enjoy this spring exhibition will become more interested in visiting Osaka and Japan."
When visitors enter the East Bed of the conservatory, beautiful flowers from cherry trees greet them along a stone path decorated with doors of spring. As they roam through the doors, the sweet scent of delicate cherry blossoms fills the air, while two giant Japanese paradise birds "fly" overhead.
On the South Bed, glowing Japanese celebratory lanterns hang over a waterfall amid a collection of intricately designed ceramics. Decorated with lush green, pink, and blue lentils, the vase's color palette evokes the signature colors of spring. A 4-foot-tall lantern hangs overhead and glows over an elegant koi swimming in the pond below.
Two 18-foot red-crowned Japanese cranes near the North Bed stand tall on lotus flowers blooming at various stages of life. The cranes were inspired by the popular 100 Years of Edo, one of a series of Ukiyoe engravings by Japanese artist Hiroshige. In Japanese culture, cranes symbolize longevity and strength, while lotus flowers are respected for their ability to bloom from the mud of murky ponds – a process that symbolizes enlightenment. Designed to recreate the legendary teahouse that debuted at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, the traditional teahouse is right beyond the pond and sits for an old tea ceremony.
With more than 19 million residents, Osaka is Japan's second-largest city and the commercial center of the western region. Dating back to the 7th century, Osaka is rapidly becoming a world-famous tourist destination for excellent food, history, and people. MGM Resorts declared Osaka as the first candidate for the development of an integrated casino resort after Japan legalized it in 2018. Osaka was named the host city of the 2025 World Expo as MGM Resorts was chosen as a proud sponsor. The representation of Osaka Castle within the Bellagio Conservatory is a celebration of the magnificent Japanese city designed to be enjoyed by millions of Las Vegas visitors every day.
The Conservatory & Botanical Gardens is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and free to the public.
Bellagio's Spring Conservatory reflects MGM Resorts International's commitment to celebrating Japanese culture with visitors from all over the world. In addition, the resort features two locations: the Infinity Mirror Room, The Fall of Eternity, and Narcissus Garden by internationally renowned artist Yayoyo Kusama, all of which will be on display at the Bellagio Museum of Art until June 30. 실시간 바카라사이트