In a surprising twist of international camaraderie, Adelaide’s sister city, Himeji, Japan, has unveiled its very own “Adelaide Garden”, inspired by the beautiful “Himeji Garden” in Adelaide’s south parklands.
The grand opening of the “Adelaide Garden” was met with both amusement and bewilderment as visitors were greeted by a landscape that seemed to have been plucked straight from a scorching Adelaide summer. The garden features a meticulously curated assortment of dry, brown grass patches, a replica of the Torrens River (complete with a trickle of greenish water full of rubbish), and several other nods to the city of Adelaide.
Himeji’s Mayor, Hideyasu Kiyomotobahn, expressed his excitement about the new garden at the ceremonial ribbon cutting. ‘We wanted to respectfully capture the essence of Adelaide in a way that would resonate with both our citizens and visitors’, he stated whilst caressing a much smaller set of Mall’s Balls.
Strolling through the serene, dusty garden, visitors can “enjoy” a little taste of the Adelaide CBD in Japan, including sitting on top of a bronze pig, tripping over a discarded Beam scooter, or avoiding eye contact with the mouthy resident derros.
‘We were planning to add more features like a replica Adelaide Oval, some Polites signs and a burst water main, but we’ve already had the North Himeji Residents Association complain about any sort of progress’ stated Mayor Kiyomotobahn.
‘However, as night falls, we have arranged for a group of middle-aged men to suspiciously loiter around the gardens for some reason, as is tradition in Adelaide’s south parklands’.
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