Brisbane Botanic Gardens is located 7 km from the city center in the suburb of Tuvong, at the foot of the highest mountain in Brisbane Mount Coot-tha.

The original name of the garden, stretching over 52 hectares - Botanical Garden "Mount Coot-tha." It was opened to the public in 1976 by the decision of the City Council Brisbane. This is the second botanical garden in the city. The first and older, known as the City Botanic Gardens, located in downtown Brisbane. Gardens had to be divided because of the fact that collection of plants grown and is not placed in the same area.

Today in the Botanical Gardens at Mount Coot-tha is possible to visit several thematic exhibitions: Tropical Dome opened in 1977 and has 9 meters in height and 28 meters in diameter; Japanese garden; Garden bonsai; Fern Alley; arid zone with cacti; Exotic rain forest; Garden of the temperate zone; bamboo thickets; Australian plant communities.

Especially popular with tourists is the Japanese Garden, designed by Kenzo Ogata, a leading propagandist fashion to traditional Japanese gardens .  It is made in strict accordance with the canons of the Japanese, but to create it have been used Australian trees, shrubs and flowers .  The garden was taken in a botanical garden of the pavilion with the Government of Japan Expo 88 . Garden welcomes visitors plaque from the Brisbane City Council and the Japanese Association, and at the entrance gate is a plaque with calligraphy executed by the then Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita .  The label with gold engraved name Garden "Yu-Tsui-en," which can be literally translated as "fun, blue-green, garden," and that means "Come into the garden and enjoy the blue water and green trees' .  The most fascinating attractions of the garden - the stones that depict mountains and symbolize the "patience and eternal period of time" .

In 2005, right at the gate of the Japanese garden flowered bamboo bush. Bamboo flowering is very rare - many fans of this plant for a lifetime may well not once see his colors. As usually happens in such cases, after flowering bamboo faded and was replaced by another plant.

The Japanese Garden is held annually in September, Japanese cultural festival, during which you can take part in a tea ceremony, learn the art of Japanese calligraphy and ikebana.?