Events: Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden

Winter Light Festival – Nikka Yuko

Winter Light Festival – Nikka Yuko

Welcome to our annual Winter Light Festival experience! We hope you will enjoy this year’s light display celebrating the seasons! The garden will be separated into four sections, designed to capture the essence of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Don’t forget to check out our giant Lite-Brite display made by Wesbridge Construction inside the Kid’s Corner! If you would like to add the Kamakura [Igloo] Projection Dome, to your experience, use the add-on option in the ticket levels (labelled in black). This add-on does not include garden admission and must be purchased with an admission ticket. This experience is not available on Fridays in January and February, instead, it is reserved for our Date Night in the Dome bookings, available on our website.  For more information on special events, bookings and garden history please visit our website: nikkayuko.com

Nikko Botanical Garden

Nikko Yuko Japanese Garden

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.