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Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Road
Delray Beach, FL
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens celebrate a more than century-old connection between Japan and South Florida. In the early 1900s, a group of young Japanese farmers arrived in what is now northern Boca Raton and formed an agricultural colony they called Yamato, an ancient name for Japan. The colony’s farming endeavors were ultimately unsustainable. Consequently, almost all original colony members returned to Japan. In the mid-1970s, one of the last remaining settlers, George Sukeji Morikami, then in his 80s, donated his land to Palm Beach County with the wish for it to become a park to preserve the memory of the Yamato Colony.