Bonsai museum sees record visitors

Hip art: A filepic of Japan’s mambo musician Paradise Yamamoto showing his ‘mambonsai’, a combination of a bonsai and his hand-made miniature figures. — AFP

Tokyo: The Omiya Bonsai Art Museum in Saitama attracted 96,001 visitors in fiscal 2017, the largest number since the museum opened in March 2010.

The 2017 figure included 6,225 foreign nationals, also the highest figure in the facility's history.