The 273 greenhouses of Asia

Three glass halls set tropical palms and cacti alongside plants from central and southern Korea.

Two pyramid-shaped glasshouses kept at 24 to 26 °C all year round in the heart of Kazakhstan's capital.

Since 1958, steam from Atagawa's near-boiling hot springs has heated greenhouses growing more than twenty kinds of banana.

Designed by Tadao Ando on a hill whose earth was used to build Kansai airport, it is Japan's second-largest greenhouse.

Built around a waterfall for the 1995 urban greening fair, the cylindrical glass greenhouse kept its original layout in the 2025 artistic makeover.

Four glasshouses of about 9,000 m² where some 5,000 pots of tuberous begonias bloom all year round.

A 1973 greenhouse in a free city park, heated and cooled since 2009 by a 170 RT ground-source heat pump.

Closed in 1995 and later declared unsafe, the 1970 glasshouse reopened in 2025 as a “plant hospital” run by biologists.

A glasshouse laid out as a peach blossom, Bucheon's emblem, at the heart of a municipal ecology park.

A 15-metre hemispherical glass greenhouse where some 1,000 butterflies of about fourteen species fly all year round.

Four thousand gilded aluminum petals form the cocoon beneath which five hundred tropical butterflies flutter, facing Sharjah's waterfront.

A glasshouse devoted to wild camellias, with more than a hundred species arranged in five geographical zones.

A display glasshouse of about 8,000 m² where some 10,000 begonias and fuchsias bloom all year at around 20 °C.

An inverted glass saucer 100 meters across, where Seoul recreates the tropics and the Mediterranean under one roof.

A glass silhouette designed to echo the nearby Kinkaku-ji.

Korea's first Western-style glasshouse, designed in 1907 by the Japanese horticulturist Fukuba Hayato and erected by a French company.

Opened in 2018, this 108-by-68-metre conservatory has been billed by the Indian press as the largest glass house in the country.

Heated for over thirty years by waste heat from a neighbouring incinerator, this greenhouse won Mitsuo Taki a landscape architecture prize.

A glasshouse crowned with golden chimi and lotus-patterned tiles, recalling the Silla palace where rare flowers and birds were kept.

Over 15,000 butterflies under climate-controlled domes in the middle of the desert.

A fully glazed vault on the Kushiro River has housed an evergreen garden since 1989, in spite of Hokkaido's long winters.

A glass shell by Tadao Ando, cut from a sphere 57 m in radius, shelters a subtropical forest alive with butterflies.

Five curving glasshouses modelled on the oxbow lakes of a meandering river, leading from rainforest to desert and Antarctic penguins.

A small greenhouse with a glazed upper floor and pyramid skylight, reopened in 2022 as a green rest area: succulents, carnivorous plants, orchids and benches.

A municipal glasshouse from 2023 devoted to the world's dry regions, from the Mediterranean to Australia, with over 300 species under glass.

More than 32,800 steel members and 18,000 nodes make up the all-glass frame of this greenhouse, opened in 2009.

A four-seasons garden, a fern forest, a room of aerial roots and a cactus field surround the central hall of this free municipal greenhouse.

Guinness World Record holder for the largest column-free glasshouse.

A large glazed dome of 1,200 m² where bougainvilleas flower all year and flying foxes live without fencing.

Three climates under glass nestled among the skyscrapers of Central.

A glasshouse under a hanok roof where five of Korea's great mountains are rebuilt in miniature, planted by altitude zone.

Designed by Kampon Tansacha, a two-level garden where ferns and palms stand in artificial mist beneath a high glass ceiling.

A small pyramidal glass greenhouse keeping potted herbs in a park of plants and stars built over a Seoul reservoir.

Since 1848, Ooty's botanical gardens have grown flowers imported from an empire under glass, at 2,200 meters above sea level in the Nilgiris.

Twelve themed glasshouses in the Mae Rim mountains, including a 1,000 m² rainforest house crossed on a wooden walkway.

Built for the 1999 Horticultural Expo, it gathered more than 1,200 species under glass, from rainforest to cold-zone plants.

A glass pyramid shaped like a flower bud, a legacy of Osaka's 1990 International Garden and Greenery Exposition.

A 2,700 m² glasshouse displays some 850 tropical and subtropical species around the theme of an 'everlasting summer'.

A ring-shaped glasshouse designed for light and airflow, now an unheated exhibition space at the heart of a peony garden.

A glass greenhouse at the entrance of a Nagoya park: over 100 kinds of plants, a central pond and a herb garden upstairs.

In 1999, the largest greenhouse in Asia at the time opened at the foot of the Fragrant Hills, under a roof conceived as the leaves' memory of their roots.

The oldest greenhouse still standing in Japan, nicknamed the 'Crystal Palace of the Orient.'

A glazed greenhouse in Nobeoka's municipal botanical garden, an 8.7-hectare garden opened in 1987.

Cycads 80 to 90 years old and a palm house inherited from the Soviet era, at the foot of the Tian Shan.

Two glass houses side by side, cacti in one and tropical plants in the other, in a free municipal garden opened in 1993.

Five of the world's climates recreated in one of Asia's largest landscaped greenhouse complexes.

In a French-style garden opened in 1914, the bougainvillea house keeps a bonsai-trained specimen estimated to be 160 years old.

The glazed great greenhouse of the former Flower Festa 95 park: 2,669 m² and about 1,000 species, closed since June 2026 because of its age.

A greenhouse of 2,389 m² of floor area (1991), with orchids, cacti, a subtropical forest and sloths, at the entrance of the Kumamoto zoo's plant zone.

Seen from above, this greenhouse set over a small valley traces a butterfly; it won the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize in 1989.

A flower-and-animal park on Port Island set in a glasshouse, with hanging flowers, tropical water lilies and an inhabited tropical forest.

A toroidal glass-and-steel dome covers an indoor forest open day and night, around a 40 m waterfall.

A large tropical glasshouse in western Tokyo, extended in 2016, with its room of tropical water lilies.

In a greenhouse of about 7,000 m², some 600 birds of a hundred species live among hanging impatiens and tropical water lilies.

A mountain greenhouse devoted to carnivorous plants: 80 Nepenthes species, opened for the garden's 162nd anniversary in 2014.

A glass house opened in 2019 that keeps the brick foundations of its predecessor, on a botanical site founded in 1684.

Beneath a butterfly-shaped glass roof, dozens of tropical butterfly species fly freely in the heart of Anatolia.

Prince Albert Victor laid its foundation stone in 1889; today it stages Bangalore's great flower shows.

A two-level tropical greenhouse where the park released 9,368 butterflies of 65 species in a single year, mostly in this house.

A ramp runs along all four glazed walls of this 14-metre-high greenhouse, lifting visitors to a gallery above the bougainvilleas.

A 55.5 cm Nepenthes truncata pitcher grown here has held the Guinness world record for the largest pitcher-plant trap since 2022.

Beneath the iron dome grows a double coconut (Lodoicea maldivica), a Seychelles palm planted here in 1894.

An orchidarium of 2,500 Himalayan orchids, in the highest botanical garden in West Bengal.

The park says this heated greenhouse produced the only flowering in Japan of a true sal tree, one of the sacred trees of Buddhism.

Visitors enter through a stone tower planted with akō figs, whose aerial roots are meant to wrap its walls over time.

Baku rebuilt its botanical garden in 2023-2024 and added a glass orangery 47 m long and 19 m wide, rising 15 m.

Begun in 1947 by German prisoners of war, this 500 m² glasshouse holds a butia palm of about 70 years and more than 500 species.

Here flowers Grammatophyllum speciosum, the world's largest orchid, whose flower spikes reach 2.5 m.

A tropical conservatory of brick under a glass vault, at the centre of the botanical garden of a former estate, with an upper-level viewing gallery.

An atrium under a glass dome where tulips and hydrangeas bloom inside a tropical LNG terminal, cooled by the cold of regasification.

Pyramid greenhouses, planned in 1959 to punctuate the grassland below Mount Ōmuro, hold some 1,500 species of cacti and succulents.

The new orchid house of the garden where Sukarno gave Kim Il-sung the orchid that became the Kimilsungia.

Opened in 2025, this 497.5 m² glasshouse holds more than 100 Hoya species and is billed as the most complete in Southeast Asia.

At 1,300 m in the damp air of Bedugul, a 500 m² greenhouse shelters 98 species of cacti and succulents.

A large tropical glasshouse heated and cooled with hot water from a neighbouring waste incinerator, at the centre of a French-inspired garden.

Built as the City of Osaka's pavilion for Expo '90, it is billed by its operators as the largest greenhouse in Japan.

Billed as Asia's largest glass greenhouse garden, it keeps 1918 steel roof trusses from the former Shanghai No. 3 Steel Works.

Originally powered by the incineration plant next door, the smallest member of Japan's botanical garden association now grows fruit to eat.

Rebuilt in 2012 after five and a half years of closure, it is cooled in summer partly by underground air tubes rather than by air conditioning alone.

Beneath a transparent dome, waste heat from a coal-fired power station warms a jungle of some 460 species through the winter.

Jeju's first glasshouse, built in 1985 with Japanese engineers, opens onto a garden of cacti, tropical fruit trees and palms.

A glasshouse modelled on crater geometry holds baobab, papaya and palms in the grounds of the Citrus Museum, in southern Jeju.

On the slope of a warm-temperate forest, a 3,762 m² glasshouse shelters 601 subtropical species, the largest in southern Korea according to the county.

On the site of a Japanese-era glass rotunda demolished in 2020, a low new glasshouse now shelters Taiwan's threatened plants.

A glass onion-shaped dome nicknamed "Tamanegi House", where flowers replaced tropical plants in 2015.

Built in 1915 to bring flowers into bloom in midwinter and rebuilt in 1936, it is described as Beijing's earliest modern greenhouse.

A 660 m² glass-panelled dome on the hill of Himeji's Peace Park, with a waterfall, palms, orchids and carnivorous plants.

An origami-shaped glass cube in the heart of City Walk encloses a rainforest built around the largest artificial tree of its kind.

Beneath an 85-metre grid shell, more than 300 trees grow at the heart of a desert airport's central concourse.

A 50-metre glass dome standing at the centre of a ring of covered walkways one kilometre long.

A single gardener tends the mini rainforest growing, almost secretly, at the heart of Jerusalem.

A pentagonal dome classed as glass architecture, inspired by the giant kites of the Hamamatsu festival, with banana, papaya and some 80 species of tropical fruit trees.

More than 2,000 orchids are on permanent display beneath a 36 m lookout tower facing the East China Sea.

A glass-fronted hall of about 1,500 m² where banyans, palms and some 500 ōgomadara butterflies share a single roof.

A tropical greenhouse of about 473 m², kept at a constant temperature all year, with some 200 species and a winter orchid festival.

A 31-meter-high glass-and-steel bubble planted in the middle of the city, growing a jungle under a dome.

Its steel-truss arches and scale-like shell are modelled on the Taiwanese pangolin, the endangered animal that gave the hall its nickname.

A glazed greenhouse of useful tropical plants (cacao, vanilla, banana, sandalwood) in the medicinal garden of a pharmacy museum, open to all.

In 2023 the garden achieved, by hand pollination, the first fruiting in Japan of the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum).

More than fifty vanilla plants were added to this tropical house, renamed the Vanilla Dome when it reopened in 2025.

A waterdrop-shaped glasshouse modelled on a Southeast Asian subtropical rainforest, holding 337 tropical species.

Kazakhstan's oldest botanical garden began in 1912 as a glasshouse where a meat-canning plant grew bay laurel and onions.

Its two domes, one large and one small, echo the keyhole-shaped burial mounds found in numbers around Mount Tōgoku.

A giant sunflower-shaped glasshouse gathers six themed gardens under one glass roof, at the heart of the Jungmun resort complex.

Hundreds of tropical and subtropical species under glass, including avocado trees and orchids from Japan, China and Mexico.

On a former landfill in Tokyo Bay, three glass domes heated by waste heat from a nearby incineration plant.

In Japan's far north, some 250 camellia cultivars, shrubs that do not grow wild in Hokkaido, flower under glass.