Delray Beach Florida UNITED STATES
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Delray Beach
The most welcoming place between Palm Beach and Boca Raton
Delray Beach has an upscale but unsnobby air. Stars and stripes everywhere celebrate its national award for 'civic-mindedness'.
The long stretch os sedate beach, with direct access and good facilities, is magnificent and between November and April the rambli' Rose riverboat offers daily cruises along the Intercoastal Waterway.
Delray's heart lies inland, along Atlantic Avenue - an invitinf street softly lit at night ny old-fashioned lamps and lined with palm trees, chic cafes, antique shops and art galleries. Alongside lies Old School Square, with a cluster of handsome 1920s buildings. Nearby, snug Cason Cottage has been meticulously restored to the way it might have looked when the house was first built in about 1915.
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Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
The museum is located upon land donated by a farmer named George Morikami, he was one of a group of Japanese pioneers who esteablished the Yamato Colony on the northern edge of Boca Raton in 1905.
Displays in the Yamato-kan villa, on a small island in a lake, tell the settler's story and also delve into past and present Japanese culture. There are interesting reconstructions of a bathroom, a schoolboy's bedroom and eel-and-snake restaurants. Formal Japanese gardens surround the villa and paths lead into serene pinewoods.
A new building across the lake holds exhibitions on all matters Japanese, a cafe serving Japanese food and a traditional tea house where tea ceremonies are performed once a month. Also, origami workshops are offered.
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