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Suizenji Garden is a spacious, Japanese style landscape garden in Kumamoto, best enjoyed by strolling along a circular path. The garden reproduces the 53 post stations of the Tokaido, the important road, that connected Edo with Kyoto during the Edo Period, in miniature form.
A must-see Japanese garden expressing the beauty of nature. Visitors are treated to the delicate depiction of a natural landscape through rocks and trees on the white sand for islands and trimmed azalea trees for swelling waves.
One of the most beautiful gardens in Tokyo, the Rikugien offers a quiet resting and strolling place in the hectic Tokyo life. Rikugien is a delicate and gentle Japanese garden that reflects the depth of Yoshiyasu’s literary knowledge. The garden is a strolling garden of the Edo period.
Conveying the harmonized beauty of Japanese paintings and Japanese Gardens is the aim and wish of the Adachi Museum of Art, which is best known for having one of the greatest collections of modern and contemporary Japanese arts.
Kenrokuen is one of Japan’s three most famous gardens, along with Mito Kairakuen and Okayama Korakuen. The garden is popular with residents and tourists from all over the world as a garden where you can enjoy the beauty of each season.
The famous garden created by ink painter Sesshu (1420-1506), it is considered one of the oldest dry landscape gardens in Kyoto. The style is Zen-style Karesansui.
The villa and gardens are nationally recognized as an Important Cultural Property of Japan. Built between the beginning and middle of the 17th century, it is said to be the most famous Japanese garden.
Ryoanji Temple is the site of Japan’s most famous rock garden.
Starting with the spacious garden and majestic architecture, we will introduce the precincts of Sanzen-in Temple where you will be healed.
Taizo-in is a “Real Japanese Garden”. With its beautiful gardens and treasures of Japanese art, Taizo-in is the oldest and most famous sub-temples of the Myoshin-ji complex. It was founded in 1404 and the gardens are said to have been designed by the painter Kano Motonobu in the Muromachi period.
Its official name is Rokuonji, the garden and architecture centered on the Kinkaku are said to represent the Pure Land of Bliss to the world, and it is a stage that has contributed to the development of culture by inviting Emperor Gokomatsu. The culture of this period is called the Kitayama culture.
Koinzan is also called “moss temple” because the precincts are covered with more than 120 kinds of moss. Many Zen temples in Japan were founded in the Kamakura period when Zen Buddhism was introduced and flourished. It has a long history of over 1,200 years.
This garden, popularly known as “Nikko Botanical Garden”, is a branch of the Botanical Garden attached to the Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo (commonly known as “Koishikawa Botanical Garden” ). The garden has a collection of species that grow in Japan’s alpine and temperate to subarctic regions, as well as foreign species closely related to them. Approximately 130 species of fern, 70 species of gymnosperms, and 2,000 species of angiosperms (approximately 1,750 dicotyledonous species and 250 monocotyledonous species) grow here, including those that grow naturally.
Koishikawa Botanical Garden is also one of Tokyo’s most pleasant and interesting places for cherry blossom viewing, because it does not get as crowded as other hanami spots and features cherry trees of various varieties. It is not to be confused with the similarly named Koishikawa Korakuen. This botanical garden is not only the oldest botanical garden in Japan, but also one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world.
Founded in 1924, Kyoto Botanical Gardens is the oldest and most comprehensive public botanical garden in Japan. With seasonal plants and various conservatories, the Gardens is ever-changing and can be enjoyed all year round. More than 450 cherry blossom trees bloom beautifully in spring and leaves of deciduous trees such as maple color exquisitely in autumn. At other times of the year, lush greenery and a wide variety of trees and flowers can be enjoyed. Kyoto Botanical Gardens is a living museum of plants that offers opportunities for both education and relaxation.
The botanical garden has about 7,000 kinds of plants, and there is also a “greenhouse” designated as an important national cultural property, and a “gassho-zukuri house” relocated from Gifu Prefecture’s Shirakawa-go, which has become a World Heritage site.
In addition to popular animals such as koalas and giraffes, you can meet about 450 species of animals from large elephants to small killifish. This is the largest number of species in Japan, and you can see the unique ecology of a wide variety of animals.
In the garden where vestiges of Musashino remain, you can enjoy the beauty of plants and flowers throughout the four seasons. Currently, about 4,800 kinds and 100,000 trees/stocks have been planted. The garden is divided into 30 blocks for each type of plant, including a rose garden, azalea garden, plum garden, and hagi garden, so that visitors can acquire knowledge about plants while admiring the scenery.
After passing through the front gate, visitors are greeted by seasonal flowers. You can enjoy tropical water lilies with beautiful flowers and a wide variety of species throughout the year. In addition, there is a carnivorous plant corner on the north side. The number of orchids, such as fragrant orchids and small orchids, is one of the largest in Japan! There are also orchids that can only be seen here, and much more.
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