Document 72 Hours · Season 11 · Episode 18

Seeds of Happiness at a Tokyo Garden Center

Friday, October 9 · 29 min

As many people have spent more time at home during the coronavirus pandemic, gardening has become a popular hobby. Tokyo's garden megastore with over 100,000 varieties of plants is the go-to place for people wanting flowers, vegetables, bonsai trees or rare shrubs. The center's customers include a man inspired by a cactus' power to survive, a woman who buys weakened plants so she can help them recover and a woman who feels most relaxed when she tends to her plants. For 3 days, we asked what plants mean to them.

Guest stars

Kazue FukiishiSelf - Narrator (voice)