Depicts Kairaku-en and Japanese Apricot Tree. State name above, value below.

Kairaku-en (偕楽園) (English: "A park to be enjoyed together") is a Japanese garden located in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. It is served by the Jōban Line via Kairakuen Station, which is only open during the plum blossom season. Along with Kenroku-en and Koraku-en, it is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan. Kairakuen was built relatively recently in the year 1841 by the local lord Tokugawa Nariaki. Unlike Japan's other two great gardens, Kairakuen was originally intended to serve for the enjoyment of the public. While worth a visit throughout the year, Kairakuen is most attractive during the plum blossom season, which usually takes place in late February and March. Besides the plum tree forest, where one hundred different plum tree varieties with white, pink and red blossoms are planted, Kairakuen also features a bamboo grove, cedar woods and the Kobuntei, a traditional Japanese style building.

Prunus mume is an Asian tree species classified in the Armeniaca section of the genus Prunus subgenus Prunus. Its common names include Chinese plum and Japanese apricot. The flower is usually called plum blossom. This distinct tree species is related to both the plum and apricot trees. Although generally referred to as a plum in English, it is more closely related to the apricot. In Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese cooking, the fruit of the tree is used in juices, as a flavouring for alcohol, as a pickle and in sauces. It is also used in traditional medicine.

Plum blossoms are often mentioned in Japanese poetry as a symbol of spring. When used in haiku or renga, they are a kigo or season word for early spring. The blossoms are associated with the Japanese bush warbler and depicted together on one of the twelve suits of hanafuda (Japanese playing cards).

The inner section shows an image of an old Japanese coin (old cast Mon coin) where Kanji letters mean “Local Autonomy”. Latent image technology is applied to the centre of the coin to make letters of “47″ representing the number of prefectures in Japan, and “60″ representing the 60th Anniversary of Enforcement of the Local Autonomy Law appear alternately when viewed from different angles.

The outer ring of the coin depicts the inscription in English above, value in English and the year of issue in Kanji below.

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana and katakana. The date begins with the symbols for the era name Heisei (平成), followed by the era year, and ends with the symbol for year (年).