Amazing parks in Tokyo. Japan: Tokyo Gardens and Parks Tokyo Gardens and Parks
As you know, the capital of Japan is Tokyo - a powerful industrial, economic and Cultural Center this amazing country. On the territory of the city and in its surrounding districts there are several entertainment complexes, each of which is interesting in its own way and worthy of repeated visits. However, the most large-scale, popular and socially significant can be called with full confidence " Tokyo Dome City"
Located in the heart of Tokyo. This is a huge sports entertainment center, which includes an indoor baseball stadium designed for 55 thousand spectators, a concert complex where performances by world celebrities take place, a complex of spa treatments "LaQua", a hospitable hotel "Tokyo" Dome Hotel", shops, restaurants and, of course, the center of fun - an amusement park called " Tokyo Dome City Attractions".
One of its most exciting attractions is the extreme roller coaster called "Thunder Dolphin". Thrill-seekers board trolleys and rise to a height of 218 feet, from where they drop down at an angle of 80 degrees and rush at a speed of 130 km/h. The highlight of the trip is given by its unusual route, passing through the openings in the building of the complex " LaQua"and the center of an 80-meter Ferris wheel called " Big-O", which lacks a central axis.
Another exciting attraction is called " Tower Hacker", it slowly lifts passengers to a height of 80 meters, pauses briefly, giving them the opportunity to survey the sprawling panorama, and then suddenly drops down at a speed of 100 km/h, stopping literally two meters from the surface of the earth. During this entertainment, visitors are overwhelmed with nothing an incomparable feeling of free fall, which, having experienced once, most people dream of repeating again. For such extreme sports enthusiasts, there is another attraction in the park called ". Skyflower", which gives you a real air trip by parachute, which also ends in free fall.
Also the park Tokyo Dome City Attractions"famous for its thrill ride" The Pipeline". The opening of this roller coaster took place in 1985 and its main difference is a rotating trolley with passengers, which adds a lot of additional sensations to an already extreme trip.
Tokyo Dome City Amusement Park Map
Visitors with children will enjoy the Magical Mist playground, which is a special surface with holes for small fountains. Children happily frolic in the water, while parents relax on a bench, enjoying the surrounding beauty. Adult visitors who also want to have a little refreshment can visit the "Wonder Drop" attraction, which begins with a relaxing ride in a rocking boat and ends with an unexpected fall into the pool from a height of several tens of meters.
Tokyo Dome City Attractions waits for its visitors every day from 9 am to 10 pm. The entrance ticket for an adult visitor is $25, for children over three years of age - $18.
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Tokyo is one of the four largest cities in the world and the most complex at the urban level. It abounds not only in architecture, but also in the most beautiful and spectacular botanical gardens and parks.
Truly artistic creations. A combination of plants, water, sand and rocks displays natural beauty. They invite tourists to meditate and just relax. Ponds that simulate lakes, rocks that are islands or mountains, trees simulated over the years with precise shapes, as well as dwarf trees in pots... Paths that cross the gardens and stop at beautiful tea houses where you can climb and contemplate nature reduced in size...
Traveling around Tokyo You should definitely check out one of the parks. It takes at least an hour to walk around this miracle of nature and craftsmen.
Koishikawa Korakuen. The garden, which occupies 7 hectares of land, was built in 1629 by the Mito Tokugawa family. Walking along it brings real pleasure. A lake, an island, a crescent arched bridge in the waters of a pond... This garden is a real miracle!
Rikugi-en. The garden is a typical example of Edo era gardens. The path from the very entrance will lead tourists to a magnificent lake, and then to a 35-meter elevation, from where you can enjoy the panorama of the park itself and the city.
Hama-Rikyu. This is Tokyo's most spectacular park. 250 hectares of gardens and lakes will not leave anyone indifferent. The park is home to a 300-year-old pine tree, and there is also a spacious and varied peony garden with 60 various types these lovely flowers.
Kyu Shiba-Rikyu. This is another prime example of Edo period gardens. Artificial hills inviting you to enjoy the landscape, ponds, as well as chains of mountains...
There are many other gardens and parks in Tokyo that amaze with their grandeur and beauty.
When is the best time to go to Tokyo? The climate in Japan's capital is relatively mild throughout the year. It rains from the end of June until mid-July, so there is high humidity. Winter, on the contrary, is dry and with cloudless skies. So, if anyone suffers from high and stifling humidity, travel in October or November. Winter in Tokyo is cold, but there is practically no snow. April is another high point for tourism because it is the month of local outdoor celebrations and typical Japanese gardens are in all their sparkle.
Japan: Tokyo Gardens and Parks Like any metropolis, Tokyo needs a breath of fresh air, the source of which is the numerous gardens and parks, arranged among modern skyscrapers and highways. 
There are many green park areas in the city - these are Ueno, Kitanomaru and others. But the ancient Japanese gardens, carefully preserved by the residents of Tokyo, are especially interesting. I want to talk about two such gardens. Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden
The Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden is located in the city center among skyscrapers and highways, but close to the waters of Tokyo Bay. The garden is small, but with its own history. It was founded at the beginning of the 17th century, during the period called Edo in Japanese history. Since then, the garden was owned by many feudal lords and emperors, each of them contributed something of their own to the layout of the garden, but in 1923, as a result of a fire caused by the powerful Kantor earthquake, all the buildings and many trees of the Kyu Shiba Rikyu garden burned down. And yet, this amazingly beautiful garden was restored in almost a year and is open to the public. 
The Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden is the standard of traditional Japanese gardens. In the center of the garden there is a pond with several small islands. A stone bridge leads to one of them - Nakajima Island, which also has its own name - Yatsuhashi. The island rises up a hill entwined with a path. You can climb along it to a squat pine tree, in the crown of which an old stone lantern in the form of a miniature pagoda is hidden, and admire the view. 
There are several elevations along the banks of the pond, convenient for viewing. There are streams in the garden, there is a “dry waterfall” of Karetaki, which became a stone path to the top of the highest Oyama hill. The banks of ponds and streams are lined with stones. Each of them is placed strictly in its place, so that none of them violates the harmony of the landscape, but makes it natural. 
But the most memorable object of the garden is still the large stone lantern on three legs, which has become the symbol of this garden. This type of lantern is called a yukimi-doro. It is installed near water and is made from old stones. The roof of the lantern is flat and is made so that there is snow on it in winter. The lantern in the garden of Kyu Shiba Rikyu is called “Stone Lantern for Admiring Snow”. 
There are several other lanterns in Kyu Shiba Rikyu and each of them is interesting. In the pond, right in the water, there is a small oki-doro lantern made of white stone. Lanterns of this type are always low and are placed either in the water or next to a pond on pebbles. 
To the left of the entrance, on the shore of a small pond with fish and a stone bridge, among bushes and flowers, there is a Kasuga-doro lantern. Such lanterns - with a high leg, a hexagonal roof and with drawings on the firebox - are placed in an open place. 
But the lantern on Nakajima Island is more reminiscent of a yama-doro style lantern - it is overgrown with moss and installed in a secluded place, as if hidden from view. 
Another element of the Japanese garden - a gazebo entwined with long wisteria branches - attracts with its coziness. The gazebo itself is installed on a gravel platform. Inside the gazebo there are tables and benches where you can not only relax, but also work on the computer or read. Another gazebo installed with east side garden, is intended not only for relaxing and admiring the garden, but also for conversations. The benches are placed in such a way that interlocutors can sit comfortably and have a conversation. 
The art of creating such gardens came to Japan from China. But over the centuries it has acquired its unique features and can rightfully be called Japanese. The gardeners of the Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden have created unique compositions of carefully trimmed bushes, stones, flowers and pine trees, whose gnarled branches look into the water, as if admiring their reflection. This is how “living pictures” are created - changeable, acquiring new details if you look at the water surface from different points in the garden. 
Nowadays, one of the elements of such paintings are skyscrapers surrounding the garden on all sides. One involuntarily recalls the Shinto rule about the constant renewal of the world, about the combination of old and new in life and in art. Each visitor to the garden can also create his own “living picture” simply by being reflected in the surface of the pond among skyscrapers or pine branches, or lush inflorescences of Chinese lilac, or next to swimming fish... 
GardenHamaRikyu
Hama Rikyu Garden is located on the shores of Tokyo Bay at the confluence of the Sumida River, and its territory was originally hunting grounds Tokugawa shoguns (16th-17th centuries). In 1704, Shogun Inabi built the Hama Goten Palace, which means "coastal palace", there. The garden became a resting place for the shogun's family and a place for official receptions. 
On Nakayama Island, located in the heart of the garden pond, a tea house from the shogunate still stands today. A 118-meter bridge made of Japanese cedar leads to the island. The bridge has recently been restored and its unpainted railings stand white above water surface pond. 
In the tea house you can drink tea with Japanese rice cakes and admire the mini-garden, in which a low stone lantern is half hidden among the greenery. Such lanterns are called Oribe doko, named after the peasant Oribe, who professed Christianity, but, fearing persecution, hid it. In order to pray in his faith and not attract unnecessary attention to himself, he drew a cross on the bottom of the lantern and hid the leg of the lantern in the greenery of the bushes. Since then, such lanterns began to be called after him. 
A path made of flat stones laid on gravel leads to the house. According to tradition, circles are drawn on the gravel, creating a special type of landscape around the stones with greenery. There is a philosophical meaning to this. The Japanese are contemplators of the beauty of nature and create it themselves. 
Winding along the paths of the garden you can come to a small house resembling a chapel. This is Kyu Inabi Jinja - Shinto shrine with all the attributes: there is a haiden - a prayer hall, behind it a honden - a kami sanctuary; There is a torii in front of the hayden and a pool for ablution. 
This temple belonged to Shogun Inabi, the founder of the Hama Rikyu Garden. The building itself has been rebuilt several times. Today the temple, as under Inabi, is decorated with a garden, in the silence of which thought flies into the distant past, and the imagination draws long-gone pictures of life. 
There are many secluded and interesting corners in the Hama Rikyu Garden. And in each one you can admire the amazingly bizarre pine trees - nivaki. This type of tree is used to decorate Japanese gardens because they form well. If bonsai trees are miniature decorations of the interiors of houses, then nivaki are the pearls of Japanese gardens. There are eight known varieties of nivaki. 
Several thousand different nivaki grow in the Hama Rikyu garden. Every two years, each tree is trimmed. So gardeners have enough work to do every day! Among all nivaki, a special place is occupied by a three-hundred-year-old pine tree, which miraculously survived the fire of 1944 that broke out during the bombing of Tokyo. 
Nowadays, in Hama Rikyu you can admire the flower meadows, decorated with different varieties of flowers depending on the season. In September it is a bright, colorful space. 
On the platform in front of the entrance to the garden there is a “flower elephant”. Its “body” is created from many baskets of succulents and bunches of herbs. The elephant is watered like any flowerbed, and it “blooms,” delighting visitors. 
The garden pond was favored by ducks, and the banks and crowns of pine trees were favored by a huge flock of crows. Crows are special in Japan. They have a humped beak and scream like demanding hungry children. But it is interesting to watch these birds. 
Hama Riko Garden is surrounded by water on three sides. At high tide, the water in the pond rises, but these days its level is regulated using sluices. There is a pier in Hama Rikyu water bus, which you can ride along the Sumida River. 
There are also hills in this garden for viewing, where stone steps lead. There are also stone lanterns hidden among the gnarled branches of the nivaki. It’s a pleasure to wander around the garden, and at such moments it’s always a pity that time is limited and there’s so much more I want to see. National Park Hakone and Mount Fuji-san
If you ask any person how he associates Japan, I think most of respondents would answer: “With Mount Fuji.” Outside of Japan, this mountain is more often called Fuji or Fujiyama, but the Japanese themselves pronounce the name itself big mountains Japanese islands through "ji" with the addition of the respectful prefix "san" - Fuji-san. The conical beauty is sacred and is worshiped as a kami deity in the Shinto religion. 
At the foot and on the slopes of Fuji-san there are many jinja temples - Shinto shrines. The bright red torii of Itsukushima Shrine, submerged in water, are clearly visible near the shore of the picturesque Lake Ashi, along which tourists make a half-hour voyage on schooners stylized as pirate ships. 
Mount Fuji-san is of volcanic origin; it stands at the junction of three tectonic plates and was formed about one hundred thousand years ago. The height of Fuji-san is 3779 meters. Last eruption The volcano occurred in 1707, when Tokyo was still called Edo. At that time, volcanic ash covered the streets of Edo with a layer of fifteen centimeters. And this despite the fact that the city is located eighty kilometers from Fuji. 
The slopes of Fuji-san are formed from basaltic magma. Today, the foothills of Fuji-san and its steep slopes are covered with dense forests. Coniferous trees grow in them, as well as birch, rowan, and maples. Thanks to its deciduous trees, Fuji-san is especially beautiful in the fall, starting in October, when the leaves of the trees turn beautiful gold and red colors. And in the spring, sakura blooms at the foot of Fuji-san, enveloping sacred mountain cloud of white and pink flowers. I had to be content with the sight of Fuji-san, half hidden by clouds. When approaching the mountain, I managed to photograph it before it was completely covered with a cloudy peignoir. And when we arrived at the fifth station at an altitude of 2400 m, from where those who want to conquer Fuji-san go to climb, both the mountain and the entire area were plunged into clouds, wisps of which clung to the tops of trees and bushes and slowly spread along the basalt slopes. 
The popularity of Fuji-san, both among the Japanese and among guests of Japan, is enormous. Every year approximately 200,000 people climb the mountain, of which a third are foreign tourists. The Japanese have an opinion that anyone who gets to the mouth of Mount Fuji will gain immortality. And tourists are driven by sporting interest and the desire to see the beauty of the mountain itself and the valley that stretches for many hundreds of kilometers beneath it. The Hakone Nature Reserve is formed around Fuji-san, named after the old Hakone volcano (1150 meters), located near Fuji. Now its mouth is the picturesque Lake Asi, from which a suspended cable car. In spacious carriages with a 360-degree view, you can reach the Owakudan Valley of Geysers in twenty minutes. 
The geysers are of a sulfur-hydrogen composition, but the smell there is moderate and a walk along the slopes of the “smoking” mountain, where sulfur is mined, is a pleasure. There you can also try eggs boiled in a hot spring, the shells of which turn black during the cooking process. 
In the northern part of the reserve, beyond Fuji-san, in the Misaka Mountains there are five picturesque lakes formed after the Fuji-san eruption, when lava flows blocked rivers and streams. These lakes are called Lake Fuji. All the most beautiful pictures with the reflection of Fuji-san in the water of the lake, made there. The image of the sacred Mount Fuji has inspired and inspires poets and artists to create works of art that today can be seen in museums and galleries in Tokyo, and read in multiple translations into other languages of the world.
Okuma Garden is located on the territory of one of the buildings of Waseda University, in the Shinjuku area, Tokyo. This is a mixed garden, partly Western style and partly Japanese. The garden area is approximately 3000 square meters.
The garden was originally the seat of the Matsudaira clan and the Ii clan. In 1884, the founder of Waseda University, Okuma Shigenobu, rebuilt the garden in the then fashionable Western style. In the very heart of the garden there was a wide lawn, and along its perimeter there were landscaped artificial hills and ponds. Greenhouses were also built here, in which melons were grown for the first time in Japan. After Shigenobu's death, the garden was given over to Waseda University.
The park has streams with swimming fish, flowering plants, as well as walking paths, along the edges of which stone pagodas, statues and ancient lanterns are erected. The decoration of the garden is a small copy of the Korean bell, which was presented by Korean graduates for the centenary of the university.
Classic Japanese Oriental garden
The classic Japanese Oriental garden is part of palace complex imperial residence in Tokyo.
The gardens are open to the public, unlike the palace. The garden is an example of traditional Japanese garden art. The garden is especially beautiful in the spring during the cherry blossom season.
The garden contains some administrative buildings, a music hall, and an Edo-era castle. This entire small area was recognized by the Japanese government as a “special historical relic” in 1963.
Tinzan Garden
Tinzan Garden is a typical Japanese garden located in Tokyo's Bunke district. It was built in 1877 and covers an area of 66,000 square meters.
During the Meiji era, these lands belonged to Prince Yamagata Aritomo, who built his own estate here and called it Camellia Hill House, or Chinzan-so. During construction, all the beauty of the relief was taken into account so that all the natural riches of this place were emphasized.
Previously, government meetings were held on the grounds of the garden, and documents found here indicated that Meiji held meetings here with influential dignitaries.
After the estate was transferred to Baron Heitaro Fujita, he decorated it with sculptures from the Japanese cities of Toba and Kyoto. At the very top of the hill, a three-story pagoda was built, which was brought to this place from the mountains of Hiroshima, where it had been built by monks even earlier, without using a single nail.
At the heart of the garden is the Inari Shinto Shrine, which was transported here from Kyoto. The garden is also decorated with carved Taoist and Buddhist images and more than thirty stone lanterns. The park contains a waterfall, streams, a spring, a large pond and a sacred tree that is approximately 500 years old.
Kansen-en Garden
Kansen-en Garden is located in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo and is a typical Japanese garden. Its area is approximately 14,000 square meters.
The garden was originally the residence of the Shimizu family, the most influential family of the Edo period, and belonged to the Tokugawa clan. During the Meiji Restoration in 1867, the garden was taken over by the Viscounts of Souma.
The name of the garden is translated from Japanese as “fresh spring garden.” This is explained by the fact that there was a spring here, from the water of which very tasty tea was prepared.
The garden itself is designed in the style of the Edo period, in its center there is a pond called Yamabuki-no-ido. The pond is surrounded by Japanese rose bushes. In the southern part of the garden rises Mount Mishima-yama, upon climbing which you can observe scenic views terrain. Also nearby is the Mizu-Inari Shinto Shrine.
Shin-Edogawa Garden
The Shin-Edogawa Garden is an ancient Japanese garden located near the Kanda River in the Bunke district of Tokyo. The name of the garden is translated as new garden near the Edo River. Until 1965, this section of the Kanda River was called Edo. The garden covers an area of approximately 18,500 square meters.
The garden's lands originally belonged to the Hosokawa samurai clan, which ruled the Kumamoto region during the Edo period. Then the residence of the Hosokawa family was located here. As a result, in 1959, the garden was donated to the city.
Partially, the garden is located on a hillside, where observation decks and paths, as well as a spring that feeds the underlying ponds. The ponds are mainly inhabited by red carp. The garden is decorated with pagodas, bamboo hedges and stone lanterns. The building at the entrance to the garden was built during the Taisho era, and was intended for the education of the Hosokawa family.
Koishikawa Korakuen Garden
Koishikawa Korakuen Garden is the oldest landscaped Japanese garden in Tokyo.
Kiyosumi Garden
Kiyosumi Garden is located in the Fukugawa district of Tokyo, and is a garden in the traditional Japanese style. It covers an area of approximately 81,000 square meters, and was founded in 1875-1885, on the orders of Iwasaki Yataro, the largest industrialist of the Meiji era, one of the founders of the Mitsubishi brand.
The garden is located near a huge pond on which there are three islands and a tea house. There is a walking path around the shore of the reservoir, surprising visitors to the garden with its local beauty. The garden is separated from the noisy streets of Tokyo suburbs by a narrow strip of trees and shrubs. The garden pond is home to turtles, carps and a large number of birds - seagulls, ducks, herons, flying here from the Sumida River.
Stones also add uniqueness to the garden. The entire Iwatari family searched all over the country for water-worn and beautiful large cobblestones and boulders, which were then brought here by Mitsubishi steamships. Boulders were used to create dry waterfalls, artificial hills and shallow paths. The garden contains so many boulders and stone blocks that it is sometimes called a rock garden.
Hamarikyu Garden
Hamarikyu Garden is one of the most unusual and beautiful places in Tokyo. It was originally built in the 17th century by order of a local feudal lord, who loved to relax here. The perimeter of the garden is surrounded by the magnificent Tokyo Bay, and the Hamarikyu ponds flow into the ocean. This unique place for photographers, as there are many rare flowers and plants here.
The garden design is made in traditional Japanese style. Here you can see a magnificent display of stones, as well as take part in a unique tea ceremony taking place in the cool wooden house with magnificent views of the Bay. The park contains a small temple, a water bus pier, lock structures, as well as the remains of a historical pier from which Prince Tokugawa Ieyasu sailed to his ancestral castle.
The combination of the local ultra-modern skyscrapers with the traditional park art of Japan gives tourists the opportunity to enjoy original landscape, which combines a peculiar interweaving of eras.
Mikojima Hyakkaen Garden
Mikojima Hyakkaen - a garden in Tokyo. It was created during the Bunka-Bunsei era (1804-1830) of the Edo period.
Mikojima Hyakkaen is somewhat different from feudal gardens such as Koishikawa Korakuen and Rikugien. This beautiful garden was discovered by the wealthy antiquarian Kikku Sahara, teaming up with prominent writers and artists of the time.
The garden became famous for its hundreds of plum trees. At Mikojima Hayakkaen Garden, you can admire different types of flowers at any time of the year. In October 1978, the garden was recognized as a historical monument.
Mikojima Hyakkaen Garden is located near Higashi-Mukojima and Keisei Hikifune stations.
East Garden of the Imperial Palace
The Eastern Gardens are part of the castle's defensive fortifications that existed during the Edo period (1603-1867). There were two protective circles: honmaru (main circle) and nihonmaru (second circle). Today, no major buildings from that period have survived in the Eastern Gardens, but visitors can see the fortress moats, walls, gates and several gatehouses. Edo Castle was the residence of not only the Tokugawa shoguns, but also Emperor Meiji. Remnants of the foundation are still visible on the central hill's lawn. former palace. The castle was a typical castle of that era and was not much different from the Osaka-jo castle that has survived to this day. But the main tower of the ruined Edo Castle (built in 1638) was considered the tallest in Japanese history. But it was destroyed just a few years later, in 1657 it was destroyed during the famous “Fire of Edo”.
Kawachi Fuji Garden
IN four hours Drive from the bustling Tokyo, Kitakyushu, there is an amazingly beautiful place - the Kawachi Fuji Flower Garden, consisting of flowers of incredible beauty. The Wisteria Tunnel is the most striking attraction of this place and one of the most beautiful places on the ground.
A special feature of the garden are the millions of flowers that hang in waterfalls. These are wisteria. And wisteria in Japan is called Fuji. The symbol of Japan, Fuji, bears the same name as these flowers. In Japan, wisteria symbolizes youth, poetry and feminine beauty, healing and protection. These plants are very common in Japan and are almost as popular as the famous Japanese sakura. Deciduous wisterias of different colors and shades, hanging from special frames, can be found in any park in Japan. But at Kawachi Foods there are so many of them that they create a simply unimaginable feeling.
Riku's Garden
Riku Garden is a traditional Japanese garden in Tokyo. It was built in 1702.
In 1695, shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi gave these lands to his supreme adviser and favorite Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. The garden was designed by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu based on waka poetry. In 1938, Riku Garden was donated to the Tokyo government.
The area of the garden is 87809.41 square meters. In the center of the garden there is a large pond with islands. Actually big island a hill 35 meters high has been built. This hill offers stunning views of the garden. On the middle island there are hills Imo-yama and Se-yama, which symbolize the divine consorts Izanagi and Izanami.
Kairakuen Garden
Kairakuen Garden is the oldest landscaped Japanese garden in Tokyo.
Its construction began in 1629 under the shogun Tokugawa Yerifusa and was completed under his successor.
The garden reproduces Japanese and Chinese landscapes in miniature, using ponds, stones, plants and creating artificial hills. Thus, while walking through the park, you can visit the sacred Mount Fuji, Kiyomizu-dera Temple, as well as the famous West Lake in China.
The garden is especially attractive in the second half of November during leaf fall, in February when the Plum Festival is held, and in April during cherry blossoms.
Kyu-Furukawa Garden
Kyu-Furukawa is the most beautiful garden in Tokyo. It was created at the beginning of the 20th century by Japanese businessman Furukawa Ichibei.