Tokyo gardens. Notes on Japan

Tokyo Gardens & Parks Like any metropolis, Tokyo needs a breath of fresh air, the source of which is the many gardens and parks set among modern skyscrapers and highways.

There are many green park areas in the city - these are Ueno, Kitanomaru parks and others. But especially interesting are the old Japanese gardens, carefully preserved by the inhabitants of Tokyo. I also want to tell you about two such gardens. Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden
Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden is located in the city center among skyscrapers and highways, but close to the waters of Tokyo Bay. The garden is small, but with its own history. It was founded at the beginning of the 17th century, during the period called Edo in the history of Japan. Since then, the garden was owned by many feudal lords, emperors, each contributed something of his own to the garden's layout, but in 1923, as a result of a fire caused by a powerful Kantor earthquake, all buildings and many trees of the Kyu Shiba Rikyu garden burned down. And yet this amazingly beautiful garden was restored in almost a year and is open to the public.
Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden is the standard of traditional Japanese gardens. In the center of the garden there is a pond with several small islands. A stone bridge leads to one of them - Nakajima Island, which also has its own name - Yatsuhashi. The island rises as a hill, entwined with a path. Along it you can climb to a squat pine tree, in the crown of which is hidden an old stone lantern in the form of a miniature pagoda, and admire the view. On the banks of the pond, there are more than one elevation, convenient for viewing. There are streams in the garden, there is a "dry waterfall" Karetaki, which has become a stone path to the top of the highest hill Oyama. The banks of reservoirs and streams are lined with stones. Each of them is put strictly in its place, so that none of them violates the harmony of the landscape, but makes it natural.
But the most memorable object of the garden is still a large stone lantern on three legs, which has become a symbol of this garden. This type of lantern is called yukimi-doro. It is installed near water and is made of old stones. The roof of the lantern is flat and is made so that snow lies on it in winter. The lantern in the Kyu Shiba Rikyu garden is called "Stone lantern for admiring the snow." There are several other lanterns in Kyu Shiba Rikyu, and each of them is interesting. In the pond, right in the water, there is a small oki-doro lantern made of white stone. Lanterns of this type are always low and are placed either in the water or next to a pond on pebbles.
To the left of the entrance, on the bank of a small pond with fish and a stone bridge among bushes and flowers, there is a Kasuga-doro lantern. Such lamps - with a high leg, a hexagonal roof and with drawings on the firebox - are placed in an open place. But the lantern on the island of Nakajima is more like a yama-doro lantern - it is overgrown with moss and installed in a secluded place, as if hidden from view.
Another element of the Japanese garden - a gazebo entwined with long branches of wisteria - attracts with coziness. The gazebo itself is set on a gravel site. Inside the gazebo there are tables and benches where you can not only relax, but also work on the computer or read. Another gazebo, installed on the east side of the garden, is intended not only for relaxing and admiring the garden, but also for talking. The benches in it are so set that the interlocutors can sit comfortably and talk.

The art of creating such gardens came to Japan from China. But over the centuries it has acquired its unique features and can rightfully be called Japanese. The gardeners of Kyu Shiba Rikyu garden have created unique compositions of carefully trimmed bushes, stones, flowers and pines, whose gnarled branches look into the water, as if admiring their reflection. This is how "living pictures" are created - changeable, acquiring new details, if you look at the water surface from different points of the garden.

Nowadays, one of the elements of such paintings are skyscrapers that surround the garden from all sides. One involuntarily recalls the rule of Shintoism about the constant renewal of the world, about the combination of the old and the new in life and in art. Each visitor to the garden can also create his own "living picture" by simply reflecting on the surface of a pond among skyscrapers or pine branches, or lush inflorescences of Chinese lilacs, or next to swimming fish ...
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The Hama Rikyu Garden is located on the shores of Tokyo Bay at the confluence of the Sumida River, and originally its territory was the hunting grounds of the Tokugawa shoguns (16-17 centuries). In 1704, the shogun Inabi built the Hama Goten palace there, which means "coastal palace". The garden became a resting place for the shogun's family and a place for official receptions.
On Nakayama Island, which is located in the heart of the garden's pond, there is still a shogunate teahouse today. A 118-meter Japanese cedar bridge leads to the island. The bridge has recently been renovated and its unpainted railings whiten over the surface of the pond.

In the teahouse, you can have tea with Japanese rice cakes and admire the mini-garden, where a low stone lantern is half-hidden among the greenery. Such lanterns are called Oribe doko, after the peasant Oribe, who professed Christianity, but, fearing persecution, hides this. To pray in his faith and not to arouse undue attention to himself, he traced a cross on the lower part of the lantern and hid the leg of the lantern in the green of the bushes. Since then, such lanterns have been called by his name.
A path made of flat stones, which are laid on gravel, leads to the house. According to tradition, circles are drawn on the gravel, creating a special kind of landscape around the stones with greenery. This has a philosophical meaning. The Japanese are contemplators of the beauty of nature and create it themselves.
By winding along the paths of the garden, you can go to a small house resembling a chapel. This is Kyu Inabi Jinja - a Shinto temple with all the attributes: there is a haiden - a prayer hall, followed by a khonden - a kami sanctuary; there are torii in front of the haiden, there is a pool for ablution.
This temple belonged to shogun Inabi, the founder of the Hama Rikyu garden. The building itself has been rebuilt more than once. Today the temple, as in the time of Inabi, adorns the garden, in the silence of which the thought flies into the distant past, and the imagination draws long-gone pictures of life.
The Hama Rikyu Garden has many hidden and interesting corners. And in each one you can admire the amazingly whimsical pines - nivaki. This type of tree is used to decorate Japanese gardens because they form well. If bonsai trees are miniature decorations for the inner chambers of houses, then nivaki are pearls of Japanese gardens. There are eight known varieties of nivaki.


In the Hama Rikyu garden, there are several thousand different nivakis. Every two years, each tree is sheared. So there is enough work for gardeners for every day! Among all the niwaki, a three-hundred-year-old pine tree occupies a special place, miraculously preserved during the 1944 fire that broke out during the bombing of Tokyo.
Nowadays, in Hama Rikyu, you can admire the flower meadows, decorated with different varieties of flowers, depending on the season. In September, it is a bright, multi-colored space.

There is a "flower elephant" on the ground in front of the garden entrance. Its "body" is made of many baskets of succulents and bunches of herbs. The elephant is watered, like any flower bed, and it "blooms", delighting the visitors.
The pond of the garden was chosen by ducks, and the banks and crowns of pines - a huge flock of crows. Ravens are special in Japan. They have a humped beak and scream like demanding hungry children. But watching these birds is interesting.
The Hama Riko Garden is surrounded by water on three sides. At high tide, the water in the pond rises, but today its level is regulated with the help of sluices. Hama Rikyu has a river tram pier where you can ride the Sumida River.
There are hills in this garden for viewing, where stone steps lead. There are also stone lanterns hidden among the gnarled branches of the nivaki. It is a pleasure to wander around the garden and it is always a pity at such moments that the time is limited and there is still so much to see. Hakone National Park and Mount Fuji-san
If you ask any person how he associates Japan with, I think most of the respondents would answer: "With Mount Fuji." Outside Japan, this mountain is often called Fuji or Fuji, but the Japanese themselves pronounce the name of the largest mountain in the Japanese islands through "ji" with the addition of the respectful prefix "san" - Fuji-san. The conical beauty is sacred and is worshiped as a kami deity in the Shinto religion.
At the foot and on the slopes of Fuji-san there are many jinja temples - Shinto temples. The bright red torii of the Itsukushima temple, flooded with water, are clearly visible near the shores of the picturesque Lake Ashi, along which tourists make a half-hour voyage on schooners stylized as pirate ships.

Mount Fuji-san is of volcanic origin, it stands at the junction of three tectonic plates and was formed about a hundred thousand years ago. Fuji-san's height is 3779 meters. The last volcanic eruption occurred in 1707, when Tokyo was still called Edo. Volcanic ash at that time covered the streets of Edo with a layer of fifteen centimeters. And this despite the fact that the city is located at a distance of eighty kilometers from Fuji.
Fuji-san's slopes are formed from basaltic magma. Today, the foothills of Fuji-san and its steep slopes are covered with dense forests. Conifers grow in them, as well as birch, mountain ash, maples. The deciduous trees make Fuji-san especially beautiful in autumn, starting in October, when the leaves of the trees take on a beautiful golden and red color. And in spring, sakura blossoms at the foot of Fuji-san, enveloping the sacred mountain in a cloud of pink and white flowers. I had to be content with the sight of Fuji-san, half hidden by the clouds. On approaching the mountain, I managed to photograph her until she covered herself with a cloudy negligee at all. And when we arrived at the fifth station at an altitude of 2400 m, from where those wishing to conquer Fuji-san go to the ascent, both the mountain and the entire district plunged into clouds, the pieces of which clung to the tops of trees and bushes and slowly crawled along the basalt slopes. Fuji-san's popularity, both among the Japanese and among the guests of Japan, is enormous. Approximately 200,000 people climb the mountain every year, of which a third are foreign tourists. The Japanese are of the opinion that anyone who gets to the mouth of Mount Fuji will gain immortality. And tourists are driven by sports interest and a desire to see the beauty of the mountain itself and the valley stretching under it for many hundreds of kilometers. Around Fuji-san, the Hakone Nature Reserve is formed, named after the old Hakone volcano (1150 meters), located near Fuji. Now its mouth is the picturesque lake Asi, from which a cable car leaves behind the pass. In spacious and open to 360-degree trailers, you can get to the Owakudan Valley of Geysers in twenty minutes.
Geysers of sulfur-hydrogen composition, but the smell there is moderate and a walk along the slopes of the "smoking" mountain, where sulfur is extracted, is a pleasure. There you can also try eggs boiled in a hot spring, the shell of which turns black during the cooking process.
In the northern part of the reserve, beyond Fuji-san, in the Misaka mountains, there are five most picturesque lakes formed after the eruption of Fuji-san, when lava flows blocked rivers and streams. These lakes are called Fuji lakes. All the most beautiful photographs of Fuji-san reflected in the water of the lake were taken there. The image of the sacred Mount Fuji has inspired and inspires poets and artists to create works of art that can be seen today in museums and galleries in Tokyo, and read in numerous translations into other languages ​​of the world.

If you decide to visit a theme park while in Japan, then you should seriously think about where to go, because in addition to the well-known Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea and Universal Studios Japan, there are many other worthy options in Osaka. To help you make your choice, check out TripAdvisor's Top 10 Most Popular Theme Parks in Japan.

1. Universal Studios Japan, Osaka

Here you can watch the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park, as well as ride the slowest roller coaster in Japan. Located in Osaka, this theme park has seen a significant increase in visitors lately, especially with the introduction of the new Cool Japan rides, which have become popular with foreign tourists.

2. Tokyo DisneySea, Chiba

One of two Disney theme parks outside of Tokyo, in Chiba City. The DisneySea water theme park with attractions based on the works of Jules Verne and a large number of staff in adorable costumes managed to defeat its older brother, who ended up in third place.

3., Chiba

Probably all Japanese and guests of the country know this park. All this became possible thanks to the combination of a large number of attractions, colorful live performances and the atmosphere of a fairy tale in the air.

Not included in the top three and unknown to many tourists. In fourth place we have the first of the Japanese original theme parks (the previous three, as you may have noticed, are from the USA) - Adventure World in Wakayama Prefecture. Its most famous inhabitants are giant pandas, of which there are five (there are only nine in Japan). In addition to the animals themselves, the park hosts a variety of concerts and even night safaris.

5. Nagashima Spa Resort, Mie

Do you want to rest, relax and have fun? Then you should head to the spa resort in Nagashima in Mie Prefecture. Here you will find a massive water park, botanical gardens, the largest onsen park with hot springs in Japan Yuami no shima. In Nagashima Spa Land, everyone can find entertainment to their liking.

6. Fuji-Q Highland, Yamanashi

Highly popular in Japan, thanks to several roller coasters that were record-breaking in speed, height or length at the time of construction, Fuji-Q Highland also has other ways to tickle the nerves of its visitors, such as haunted rides (Ghost Hospital and No Hope Fortress) ...

7. Tokyo One Piece Tower, Tokyo

The first fully enclosed area on the list of Tokyo theme parks. One Piece Tower is located in Tokyo Tower next to the official One Piece Manga Café. In addition to many attractions based on the manga and anime series, visitors can meet members of the Straw Hat crew and watch One Piece's adventures on stage.

Mega Web, located on Odaiba Island, is a theme park dedicated to Toyota and stunning examples from the history of motorized technology. And if you have an international driver's license or a Japanese-style driver's license, then you can take a Toyota car here for a test drive. Well, if you are not right, then you can always go to the go-kart tracks.

9. Amanohashidate View Land, Kyoto

Despite the fact that this park is not at all like the others on our list, it is nevertheless certified as one of the top three in Japan. This small park, located in Kyoto Prefecture, overlooks the famous Sand Gallery Bridge to Heaven. In addition to the spectacular view, there are also several rides and a Ferris wheel.

10. Edo Wonderland Nikko Edomura, Tochigi

This theme park lacks amusement rides, but allows you to travel back 400 years to the Edo period. Put on your kimono and stroll the streets between stunning buildings, watching ninjas leap from roof to roof, or as a geisha paced along the river, holding an umbrella in hand. The park in Nikko, near Tokyo, is often used as a stage for staging historical dramas or filming videos of the samurai era.

As you know, the capital of Japan is Tokyo - a powerful industrial, economic and cultural center of this amazing country. There are several entertainment complexes on the territory of the city and in its surrounding districts, each of which is interesting in its own way and worthy of repeated visits. However, the most ambitious, popular and socially significant one can with full confidence be called " Tokyo dome city"

Located in the heart of Tokyo. This is a huge sports and entertainment complex, which includes an indoor baseball stadium for 55 thousand spectators, a concert complex where performances of world celebrities take place, a complex of spa treatments "LaQua", a hospitable Tokyo Dome Hotel, shops , restaurants and, of course, the center of fun pastime - an amusement park called " Tokyo Dome City Attractions".

One of its most exciting rides is an extreme roller coaster called "Thunder Dolphin". Thrill seekers climb into trolleys and climb to a height of 218 feet, from where they plunge down at an angle of 80 degrees and race at a speed of 130 km / h. The trip is spiced up by its unusual track passing through the holes in the building of the complex " LaQua"and the center of the 80-meter" Ferris wheel "called" Big-O", which is devoid of a central axis.

Another exciting attraction is called " Tower haker", it slowly raises passengers to a height of 80 meters, pauses for a short time, giving an opportunity to observe the spreading panorama, and then suddenly descends downward at a speed of 100 km / h, stopping literally two meters from the surface of the earth. During this entertainment, visitors are gripped with nothing incomparable feeling of free fall, which, having experienced once, most people dream of repeating again. For such extreme lovers in the park there is another attraction called " Skyflower", which gives a real air travel by parachute, which also ends with a free fall.

Also park " Tokyo Dome City Attractions"famous for its exciting attraction" The pipeline". The opening of this roller car took place in 1985 and its main difference is a rotating trolley with passengers, which gives a lot of additional sensations to an already extreme trip.

Tokyo Dome City amusement park map

Visitors with children will love the "Magical Mist" play area, which is a special cover with holes for small fountains. Children play with pleasure in the water, while parents relax on the bench at this time, enjoying the surrounding beauty. Adult visitors wishing to also freshen up a little can visit the "Wonder Drop" attraction, which begins with a relaxing ride in a swaying boat and ends with an unexpected fall into the pool from a height of several tens of meters.

Amusement Park "Tokyo Dome City Attractions" waits for its visitors every day from 9 am to 10 pm. The cost of the admission ticket for an adult visitor is $ 25, for children over the age of three - $ 18.

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Okuma Garden is located on the territory of one of the buildings of Waseda University, in the Shinjuku area of ​​Tokyo. It is a mixed garden, partly Western and partly Japanese. The garden area is approximately 3000 square meters.

The garden was originally the seat of the Matsudaira clan and the Ii clan. In 1884, the founder of Waseda University, Okuma Shigenobu, rebuilt the garden in the then fashionable Western style. In the heart of the garden, a wide lawn was spread, and artificial hills and ponds were landscaped around its perimeter. Greenhouses were also built here, in which melons were grown for the first time in Japan. After Shigenobu's death, the garden was taken over by Waseda University.

The park has streams with floating fish, flowering plants, and walking paths with stone pagodas, statues and ancient lanterns erected along the edges. The decoration of the garden is considered to be a small copy of the Korean bell, which was presented by Korean graduates for the centenary of the university.

Classic Japanese Oriental Garden

The classic Japanese Oriental Garden is part of the imperial palace complex in Tokyo.

The gardens are open to the public, unlike the palace. The garden is an example of traditional Japanese garden art. The garden is especially beautiful in spring during the cherry blossom season.

On the territory of the garden there are some administrative buildings, a music hall, as well as an Edo-era castle. This entire small area was recognized by the Japanese government as a "special historical relic" in 1963.

Chinzan Garden

Chinzan Garden is a typical Japanese garden located in the Bunke district of Tokyo. It was built in 1877 and covers an area of ​​66,000 square meters.

During the Meiji era, this land belonged to Prince Yamagata Aritomo, who built his own estate here and called it the house on the camellia hill, or Chinzan-so. During the construction, all the beauty of the relief was taken into account so that all the natural resources of this place were emphasized.

Previously, government meetings were held on the territory of the garden, and documents found here testified that Meiji held meetings with influential dignitaries here.

After the estate was handed over to Baron Heitaro Fujite, he decorated it with sculptures from the Japanese cities of Toba and Kyoto. At the very top of the hill, a three-story pagoda was erected, which was brought to this place from the mountains of Hiroshima, where it had been built even earlier by monks without using a single nail.

In the heart of the garden is the Inari Shrine, which was brought here from Kyoto. Also, the garden is decorated with carved Taoist and Buddhist images and more than thirty stone lanterns. The park contains a waterfall, streams, a spring, a large pond and a sacred tree, about 500 years old

Kansen-en garden

Kansen-en Garden is located in Tokyo's Shinjuku area and is a typical Japanese garden. Its area is approximately 14,000 square meters.

The garden was originally the seat of the Shimizu family, the most influential during the Edo period, and belonged to the Tokugawa clan. During the Meiji Restoration in 1867, the garden was taken over by the Viscounts of Souma.

The name of the garden is translated from Japanese as "fresh spring garden". This is due to the fact that there was a spring here, from the water of which delicious tea was prepared.

The garden itself is designed in the style of the Edo period, in its center is a pond called Yamabuki-no-Ido. The pond is surrounded by Japanese rose bushes. In the southern part of the garden rises Mount Mishima-yama, climbing which you can observe picturesque views of the area. Also nearby is the Shinto shrine of Mizu-Inari.

Shin-Edogawa Garden

Shin-Edogawa Garden is an old Japanese garden located near the Kanda River in Tokyo's Bunke district. The name of the garden translates as New Garden by the Edo River. Until 1965, this section of the Kanda River was called Edo. The garden covers an area of ​​approximately 18,500 square meters.

Originally, the grounds of the garden belonged to the Hosokawa samurai clan, which ruled the Kumamoto region during the Edo period. Then, the residence of the Hosokawa family was located here. As a result, in 1959, the garden was donated to the city.

In part, the garden sits on a hillside where observation decks and paths are located, as well as a spring that feeds the ponds below. The ponds are mainly inhabited by red carps. The garden is decorated with pagodas, bamboo hedges and stone lanterns. The building at the entrance to the garden dates back to the Tais era, and was intended for the training of the Hosokawa family.

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden is the oldest landscaped Japanese garden in Tokyo.

Kiyosumi Garden

Kiyosumi Garden is located in the Fukugawa district of Tokyo and is a traditional Japanese-style garden. It covers an area of ​​approximately 81,000 square meters, and was founded in 1875-1885, at the direction of Iwasaki Yataro - the largest industrialist in the Meiji era, one of the founders of the Mitsubishi brand.

The garden is located near a huge pond with three islands and a tea house. A walking path is laid around the shore of the reservoir, surprising the visitors of the garden with local beauties. From the bustling streets of the Tokyo suburbs, the garden is separated by a narrow strip of trees and bushes. The garden's pond is inhabited by turtles, carps and a large number of birds - seagulls, ducks, herons, arriving here from the Sumida River.

Stones also make the garden unique. The whole Iwatari family searched all over the country for beautiful large cobblestones and boulders, which were then brought here by Mitsubishi steamers. Dry waterfalls, artificial hills and shallow water paths were built from boulders. The garden contains so many boulders and boulders that it is sometimes called a rock garden.

Hamarikyu Garden

Hamarikyu Garden is one of the most unusual and beautiful places in Tokyo. It was originally built in the 17th century by order of a local feudal lord who loved to relax here. The perimeter of the garden is surrounded by the magnificent Tokyo Bay, and the Hamarikyu ponds flow into the ocean. This is a unique place for photographers, as there are many rare flowers and plants.

The garden is designed in a traditional Japanese style. Here you can see a magnificent display of stones, as well as take part in a unique tea ceremony held in a cool wooden house with a magnificent view of the Bay. On the territory of the park, there is a small temple, a dock for water buses, sluice structures, as well as the remains of a historic pier from which Prince Tokugawa Ieyasu sailed to his ancestral castle.

The combination of the local ultra-modern skyscrapers with traditional Japanese park art gives tourists the opportunity to enjoy an original landscape that combines a peculiar interweaving of eras.

Mikojima Hyakkaen Garden

Mikojima Hyakkaen is a garden in Tokyo. It was created during the Bunka-Bunsei era (1804-1830) of the Edo period.

Mikojima Hyakkaen is somewhat different from feudal gardens such as Koishikawa Korakuen and Rikugien. This beautiful garden was opened by the wealthy antiquarian Kikku Sahara, who teamed up with prominent writers and artists of the time.

The garden became famous for its hundreds of plum trees. The Mikojima Hayakkaen Garden offers different types of flowers at any time of the year. In October 1978, the garden was declared a historical monument.

Mikojima Hyakkaen Garden is located near Higashi-Mukojima and Keisei Hikifune stations.

East Garden of the Imperial Palace

The eastern gardens are part of the castle's defensive fortifications that existed during the Edo period (1603-1867). There were two protective circles: honmaru (main circle) and nihonmaru (second circle). Today, the main buildings of that period have not survived in the Eastern Gardens, but visitors can see the moats, walls, gates and several gatehouses. Edo Castle was the seat of not only the Tokugawa shoguns, but also the Meiji Emperor. The remains of the foundations of the former palace are still visible on the lawn of the central hill. The castle was a typical castle of that era and was not much different from the surviving Osaka-jo. But the main tower of the ruined Edo Castle (built in 1638) was considered the tallest in Japanese history. But it was destroyed only a few years later, in 1657 it was destroyed during the famous "Edo fire".

Kawachi Fuji Garden

Four hours' drive from the bustling Tokyo, Kitakyushu, there is an amazingly beautiful place - the Kawachi Fuji flower garden, consisting of flowers of incredible beauty. The Wisteria Tunnel is the most striking attraction of this place and one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A special feature of the garden is the millions of flowers that hang like waterfalls. This is wisteria. And wisteria in Japan is called Fuji. The symbol of Japan, Fujiyama, bears the same name as these flowers. In Japan, wisteria symbolizes youth, poetry and feminine beauty, healing and protection. These plants are very common in Japan and are almost as popular as the famous Japanese sakura. Deciduous wisterias of various colors and shades hanging from special frames can be found in any park in Japan. But there are so many of them in Kawachi Foods that they create an unimaginable feeling.

Riku's garden

Riku Garden is a traditional Japanese garden in Tokyo. It was built in 1702.

In 1695, the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi presented these lands to his supreme advisor and favorite Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. The garden was designed by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu based on waka poetry. In 1938, Riku's garden was donated to the Tokyo government.

The garden area is 87809.41 square meters. In the center of the garden there is a large pond with islands. On the largest island there is a hill 35 meters high. This hill offers stunning views of the garden. On the middle island are the hills of Imo-yama and Se-yama, which symbolize the divine spouses Izanagi and Izanami.

Kairakuen Garden

Kairakuen Garden is the oldest landscaped Japanese garden in Tokyo.

Its construction began in 1629 under the Tokugawa shogun Erifus and was completed under his successor.

The miniature garden reproduces Japanese and Chinese landscapes, using ponds, rocks, plants and creating artificial hills. Thus, while walking through the park, you can visit the sacred Mount Fujiyama, the Kiyomizu-dera Temple, and the famous West Lake in China.

The garden is especially attractive in the second half of November during the leaf fall, in February, when the Plum Festival is held, and in April, during the cherry blossom season.

Kyu-Furukawa Garden

Kyu-Furukawa is the most beautiful garden in Tokyo. It was created at the beginning of the 20th century by the Japanese businessman Furukawa Ichibei.