Utsunomiya has more streets lined with horse chestnut trees (??? ''tochi-no-ki''), and more places and products labeled Marronnier (French
http://les.arbres.free.fr/fiche-marronnier.php for ''Aesculus hippocastanum'') than any other city in Japan's Tochigi ("Buckeye") Prefecture.Utsunomiya is also the hometown of jazz great Sadao Watanabe
http://www.sadao.com/index.html and bills itself as a Jazz Town
http://www.u-jazznomachi.com/top.html that is also famous for its cocktail bars
http://www.utsunomiya-cvb.org/en/public.html. http://wikitravel.org/en/Utsunomiya