Okinawa Tree House restaurant (Photo credit: Flickr)
Purely decorative follies do not spring up like trees, so here is a functional folly which has done just that – the Okinawa treehouse which is poised in a banyan tree (or maybe it is a gajumaru tree). Whatever. The tree is in fact concrete.
Back in the late nineteenth century the French were making trees out of cement and a good example of has survived at Oakworth Park in Yorkshire. But I have not seen such a bizarre and impressive modern version as this before.
This treehouse is a restaurant, serving Asian food. It is located on Highway 58 at the entrance to Onoyama Park in southern Japan where it overlooks the ocean. Visitors ascend via a lift inside the trunk.
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Okinawa is not in Southern Japan, but rather an Island of the southern coast. It’s about an hours flight from Yokota Air Base near Mt. Fuji.
How old is this tree?