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.