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Park & Garden

Kyoto Gyoen National Garden

A sprawling national park in Kyoto surrounding the Imperial Palace, created during the Meiji era from vacant aristocratic residences, encompassing 100 hectares.

Kyoto

Park & Garden

Mito Municipal Botanical Park

A botanical garden established in 1987 featuring Western-style landscapes, diverse garden elements, and approximately 28,000 trees across 80,000 square meters.

Mito · Ibaraki

Park & Garden

Gyokusen'inmaru Garden

A garden built in 1634 within Kanazawa Castle, notable as the first to use creatively patterned stone walls, reconstructed beginning in 2013.

Kanazawa · Ishikawa

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Park & Garden

Kyoto Gyoen National Garden

A sprawling national park in Kyoto surrounding the Imperial Palace, created during the Meiji era from vacant aristocratic residences, encompassing 100 hectares.

Kyoto

Park & Garden

Mito Municipal Botanical Park

A botanical garden established in 1987 featuring Western-style landscapes, diverse garden elements, and approximately 28,000 trees across 80,000 square meters.

Mito · Ibaraki

Park & Garden

Gyokusen'inmaru Garden

A garden built in 1634 within Kanazawa Castle, notable as the first to use creatively patterned stone walls, reconstructed beginning in 2013.

Kanazawa · Ishikawa

Park & Garden

Komazawa Olympic Park

Tokyo sports complex built for the 1964 Summer Olympics, featuring multiple facilities for athletics, soccer, baseball and water sports.

Tokyo

Park & Garden

Hirosaki Park

Hirosaki Park features cherry blossom trees, a castle with moat, temples, shrines, and recreational activities including boating and picnicking.

Hirosaki · Aomori

Park & Garden

The East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

The 210,000-square-meter East Gardens occupy the former Edo Castle grounds on the Imperial Palace's eastern side, centered around the historic Otemon Gate.

Tokyo

Park & Garden

Yoshinogari Park

An important archaeological site in Saga featuring a reconstructed Yayoi period village with original houses and structures, plus a museum with period artifacts and walking trails.

Yoshinogari · Saga

Park & Garden

Sankeien Garden

Traditional Japanese garden spanning 175,000 square meters with a tea house, pagoda, and Edo-period structures surrounded by ancient trees.

Yokohama · Kanagawa

Park & Garden

Odori Park

Sapporo's central park stretches 1.5 kilometers east-west, hosting major festivals including the Lilac Festival and Sapporo Snow Festival.

Sapporo · Hokkaido

Park & Garden

Nishinomaru Garden

Public garden within Wakayama Castle grounds featuring thousands of cherry blossom trees, a central pond, and a traditional tea house.

Osaka

Park & Garden

Yuri-no-Sato Park

A park featuring a lily garden with approximately 150,000 blooms across 20 varieties, alongside a small lake, picnic areas, and traditional tea house.

Sakai · Fukui

Park & Garden

Fukui Botanical Garden PLANTOPIA

This botanical garden features native and exotic plants, including rare and endangered species, tropical greenhouses, and exhibits on medicinal plants and ecology.

Echizen · Fukui

Park & Garden

Ueno Park

Tokyo's largest and most-visited city park, built on former temple grounds and featuring museums and spring cherry blossom viewing.

Tokyo

Park & Garden

Sanuki Manno Park

Shikoku's only state-run park features seasonal flower blooms, playgrounds, cycling paths, and Japan's largest RV campground, welcoming pets in designated areas.

Manno · Kagawa

Shrine

Meiji Jingu

Meiji Jingu is a Shinto shrine in Shibuya, Tokyo, dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, set within a vast man-made forest of around 100,000 trees

Tokyo