Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Tokyo Area > Mukōjima-hyakka-en Mukōjima-hyakka-en（向島百花園） This garden was built by an antique dealer between 1804 and 1830. The name of the garden means “a garden with a hundred flowers that bloom throughout the four seasons”, and the garden is indeed known for...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Tokyo Area > Tonogayato Teien Tonogayato Teien（殿ヶ谷戸庭園） The Tonogayato Teien is a Japanese landscape garden, built between 1914 and 1916 (Taisho period) near Tokyo. It was built for the residence of the vice president of the Manchurian Railway company. In 1929, the...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Tokyo Area > Kiyosumi Teien Kiyosumi Teien（清澄庭園） The Kiyosumi gardens are said to have been part of the residence of the businessman Kinokuniya Bunzaemon in the Edo period (1603-1868). In the Meiji period, the founder of Mitsubishi, Iwasaki Yataro, bought the land...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Kyoto Area > Kajū-ji Kajū-ji（勧修寺） Kajū-ji、sometimes pronounced as Kanshu-ji, is the head temple of the Yamashina school of Shingon Buddhism. It was founded in year 900 (Heian period) by the emperor Daigo. The garden has a large island pond with a great...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Tokyo Area > Kyū-Furukawa Teien 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...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Kyoto Area > Hōgon-in (Tenryū-ji) Hōgon-in (Tenryū-ji)（宝厳院） Hōgon-in is a sub-temple of Tenryū-ji temple and was first built in 1461 in the middle of Kyoto (now Kamigyo ward). It burnt down during the Onin War and was rebuilt later. In Meiji period,...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Kamakura Area > Hasedera Hasedera（長谷寺） A mystical kannon statue, hydrangea at full bloom, a modern dry landscape garden. This is the Hasedera temple in Kamakura, the probably second oldest temple in the city, also simply known as Hase kannon. It is the...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Tokyo Area > Happō-en Happō-en（八芳園） Nowadays, the beautiful Happō-en gardens serve mainly as a backdrop for traditional Japanese wedding parties and banquets. There is a kaiseki restaurant overlooking the Japanese garden and a tea house where visitors can get a bowl of...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Kamakura Area > Engaku-ji Engaku-ji（円覚寺） Meet the charismatic regent Hōjō Tokimune and Zen master Mugaku Sogen and eavesdrop on their Zen conversations. Mongol invasions, Buddha’s tooth, and a forgotten Sutra roll – the founding story of Engaku-ji temple gives you a direct...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Famous Gardens > Kyoto Area > Tenryū-ji Tenryū-ji（天龍寺） The temple was founded by shogun Ashikaga Takauji in 1339, primarily to venerate Gautama Buddha, and its first head priest was Musō Soseki. Construction was completed in 1345. As a temple related to both the Ashikaga family...Continue Reading
