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Kaizo Mario World 3 has a level called `NABANA NO SATO`. I tried to interpret
it as Japanese, since it's clearly not English and it is in an English version
so the only logical guess was it wasn't translated from it Japanese original.
But I could not make sense of `NABANA` as is in any way. So I guessed it is a
"cropped" `HANABANA`, and so the Kanji are `花々の里`, that is "Village of
flowers". But the level has no flowers. So did I guess correctly? Could the
"flowers" be the munchers of which the level is full? Or is there a way to
make sense of just `NABANA NO SATO`, and if so what is the Kanji spelling of
it?
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Level name: is my completion guess right?
"Nabana no Sato" is the name of a winter illumination resort in Mie Prefecture
(from Google). However, there doesn't seem to be a direct translation for
"nabana". Considering that the game is a hacked ROM it very well may be that
the true or intended level name was just cut off and it could be 花々の里 as your
intuition says or it could be something else altogether.
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I think the intended level name was probably meant to be Nabana no Sato,
referring to the winter illumination event in Mie-ken that just recently
concluded. The Nabana would most probably just be referring to flowers,
Hanabana, as seen from how the winter illumination involved illumination of
the flower park, or else having no special meaning at all. If you want to know
more about this illumination: [Nabana no
Sato](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/07/travel/nabana-no-sato-japan-light-
show/)

There is no kanji for this. it is just meant to be なばなの里。
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This is なばなの里 in Japanese
([source](http://blog.livedoor.jp/musicgamerog/archives/20553918.html)), and
it seems to refer to a botanical garden located at Nagashima Town, Mie
Prefecture ([official site](http://www.nagashima-
onsen.co.jp/nabana/index.html/)). BTW, I believe this garden is not really
well-known to Japanese people. And according to [this
page](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%81%AA%E3%81%B0%E3%81%AA%E3%81%AE%E9%87%8C),
なばなの里 was named after
[三重なばな](http://foodslink.jp/syokuzaihyakka/syun/vegitable/nabana.htm), which
is the name of a "local vegetable" of Mie Prefecture. This なばな in turn is a
reference to [菜の花](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%9C%E3%81%AE%E8%8A%B1).
So it's short for not 花々 but 菜の花. (We [sometimes drop
の](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/21166/5010), but omitting the first
character of 花々 doesn't make sense.)
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