Awaji Yumebutai is a complex of a conference center, a hotel and a memorial on Awaji Island, Hyōgo, designed by Tadao Ando. Ando began planning it, at first as a park, before the 1995 Great Hanshin Awaji earthquake. The article gives no client, style, opening date or materials, so the year here is an unverified estimate. The hotel now operates as the Westin Awaji Island Resort.
The best-known part is Hyakudan'en, the hundred stepped gardens. It has 100 small square flower beds arranged in grids on an inclined site, with 1,575 steps and 235 flights. Hundred refers to the gardens, not the steps. The Miracle Planet Museum of Plants is a nearby greenhouse.
The complex stands near the epicenter of the earthquake. Its name reflects a goal of restoring the island's ecology, where soil was removed for land reclamation in Osaka.
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