Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Kyoto Area > Shirakawa-in Garden Shirakawa-in Garden(白河院庭園) The Shirakawa-in is a high-class ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) with a small but superb garden. Its history traces back to the early Heian period (794-1185), when the imperial court and the first regent of the...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Secret Gardens > Kyoto Area > Ōhashi-ke Ōhashi-ke(大橋家庭園) The Ōhashi-ke garden is a private garden in the traditional Fushimi Inari neighborhood in southern Kyoto. It has a special surprise for its visitors: A Suikinkutsu (水琴窟), a musical instrument in the garden. A Suikinkutsu is a...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 > Kyū-Asakurake House Kyū-Asakurake House(旧朝倉家住宅) Shibuya is one of Tokyo’s liveliest district – and in its middle, you can find this calm residence from 1919. Asakura Torajiro, the chairman of the Tokyo council had built this house and its beautiful...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 > Famous Gardens > Other Regions > Sankei-en Sankei-en(三溪園) This beautiful landscape garden in Yokohama is one of Japan’s youngest gardens. Construction works began in 1902 and it was opened to the public in 1906. The founder of the garden, Sankei Hara, a silk trader from...Continue Reading
Top > Gardens Overview > Famous Gardens > Kyoto Area > Murin-an Murin-an(無鄰菴) Murin-an is a typical strolling garden of the Meiji period (1868-1912). It was built between 1894 and 1896 by Yamagata Aritomo, a Prime Minister of Meiji period Japan. As much as he loved the Japanese garden culture,...Continue Reading
The garden of the Nezu-Museum is not the only museum garden in our series of “Secret Gardens in Tokyo”. It may seem odd to add such gardens, however, most of them have the history of an old garden and deserve their place on our website. I visited the Museum and...Continue Reading
With the last eBook about Shōren-in I made an exception, but now I continue with the “Secret gardens of Tokyo” series! This time I researched and wrote about the Kyu-Furukawa Teien. I never wanted to visit this garden in the first place, because I thought it would be a western...Continue Reading