Nobody in their right mind would expect the following picture to be a scenery image from Japan:

And yet it is. Just like these ones:

Some smart business men must’ve visited the Netherlands during its peak tulip season. The Keukenhof, a garden & flower park specially designed to showcase the typical Dutch flower, is flooded with Japanese visitors each year.

The ceaseless clicking of their camera’s undoubtedly contributed to the construction of this resort, which is branded European, but looks very Dutch to me. It a reconstruction of and named after the residence of the Queen of the Netherlands: Huis Ten Bosch. (Literally translated: House in the forest)

During this period of the year, they join the Japanese tradition to put up thousands of decorative winter lights.

So how about it: would you travel to Japan to see the Netherlands?