Level name: is my completion guess right?


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?




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.)




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.)

