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Kyū-Furukawa Teien（旧古河庭園）
The Kyū-Furukawa estate in Tokyo’s Kita-Ku has been built by Josiah Conder in 1917, the Japanese garden was designed by Ogawa Jihei. Josiah Conder was a British architect, who was invited to Japan in 1877 to teach architecture at the Imperial College of Engineering. He also wrote the Japanese garden classic ‘Landscape gardening in Japan’.
The Kyū-Furukawa garden has two main parts – the western-style villa with a beautiful rose garden in the upper part of the grounds. The lower part of the garden has a Shinji-ike (心字池), a pond shaped like the Chinese character for ‘heart’ or ‘mind’. There is also a dry waterfall, a tea house and a small stream with a 10m waterfall that feeds the pond. For 500 Yen, you can have tea and Japanese sweets in the tea house.
In autumn, when the roses are flowering (mid-October to late November), and the Japanese maples (mid-November to early December) show off their colorful foliage, the garden is especially delightful. But also in spring (late April to mid-May), the azaleas and the rose’s first flowers are in full bloom.
Contents:
14 pages full of information about the Kyu-Furukawa Garden 35 pictures of the gardens
PDF 14MB
The eBook is delivered as PDF.
Feel free to pin these pictures to your Pinterest board:
The Kyū-Furukawa garden has two main parts – the western-style villa with a beautiful rose garden in the upper part of the grounds. The lower part of the garden has a Shinji-ike (心字池), a pond shaped like the Chinese character for ‘heart’ or ‘mind’. There is also a dry waterfall, a tea house and a small stream with a 10m waterfall that feeds the pond. For 500 Yen, you can have tea and Japanese sweets in the tea house.
In autumn, when the roses are flowering (mid-October to late November), and the Japanese maples (mid-November to early December) show off their colorful foliage, the garden is especially delightful. But also in spring (late April to mid-May), the azaleas and the rose’s first flowers are in full bloom.
Contents:
- Introduction
- History
- Buildings
- The Gardens
- Other Highlights
- Anikas Impressions
- Around Kyu-Furukawa Teien
14 pages full of information about the Kyu-Furukawa Garden 35 pictures of the gardens
PDF 14MB
The eBook is delivered as PDF.
Feel free to pin these pictures to your Pinterest board:
Directions
How to get there
The garden is 15 minutes by foot from the Komagome station (駒込駅, JR Yamanote line, Nanboku subway line). From the station, walk in northern direction.
Another option is to take the Keihin-Tohoku line to Kami-Nakazato (上中里) and walk towards the south.
Address
JP: 東京都北区西ヶ原 1-27-39
EN: 1-27-39 Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo
Telephone
03-3910-0394
Opening hours
9am – 5pm (last entrance at 4:30)
Closed around New Year between December 29th and January 1st.
Admission
150 Yen
The garden is 15 minutes by foot from the Komagome station (駒込駅, JR Yamanote line, Nanboku subway line). From the station, walk in northern direction.
Another option is to take the Keihin-Tohoku line to Kami-Nakazato (上中里) and walk towards the south.
Address
JP: 東京都北区西ヶ原 1-27-39
EN: 1-27-39 Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo
Telephone
03-3910-0394
Opening hours
9am – 5pm (last entrance at 4:30)
Closed around New Year between December 29th and January 1st.
Admission
150 Yen
