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Kenrokuen Garden

One of Japan's three great gardens, featuring an artificial pond symbolizing the sea and developed by the Maeda clan over two centuries.

Kanazawa · Ishikawa

Park & Garden

Kyu-Furukawa Gardens

Kyu-Furukawa Gardens combines a Western stone mansion, rose garden, and traditional Japanese strolling garden, blending European and Japanese design on Tokyo's Musashino Plateau.

Tokyo

Park & Garden

Southeast Botanical Gardens

Southeast Botanical Gardens displays over 30,000 plant specimens representing 1,300 species, offering learning programs and hosting events from intimate gatherings to large weddings.

Okinawa

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Park & Garden

Kenrokuen Garden

One of Japan's three great gardens, featuring an artificial pond symbolizing the sea and developed by the Maeda clan over two centuries.

Kanazawa · Ishikawa

Park & Garden

Kyu-Furukawa Gardens

Kyu-Furukawa Gardens combines a Western stone mansion, rose garden, and traditional Japanese strolling garden, blending European and Japanese design on Tokyo's Musashino Plateau.

Tokyo

Park & Garden

Southeast Botanical Gardens

Southeast Botanical Gardens displays over 30,000 plant specimens representing 1,300 species, offering learning programs and hosting events from intimate gatherings to large weddings.

Okinawa

Park & Garden

Rojo Park

Rojo Park occupies the former third bailey of Komatsu Castle, featuring stone monuments, statues of feudal lord Toshitsune Maeda, multiple ponds, and cultural facilities.

Komatsu · Ishikawa

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Nara Park

Large public park in Nara home to over 1,200 free-ranging sacred Sika deer, with historical temples and shrines for visitors to explore.

Nara

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Kōno Park

Public park in Saga Prefecture with ornamental gardens, cherry blossoms, walking trails, and recreation facilities for families visiting the area.

Saga

Park & Garden

Ritsurin Garden

Among Japan's three most beautiful gardens, Takamatsu's Ritsurin Garden was created during the early Edo period and features scenic ponds, hills and traditional tea houses.

Takamatsu · Kagawa

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Matsugasaki Park

This Yonezawa park preserves castle ruins dating to the 17th century and features scenic views alongside cherry blossoms in spring.

Yonezawa · Yamagata

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Umeno Park

Umeno Park is a plum blossom sanctuary hosting the Yoshino Baigo Plum Blossom Festival from mid-February to late March, part of a 4-kilometer stretch with 25,000 plum trees.

Tokyo

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Ashikaga Flower Park

The park features wisteria in pink, purple, and white, a walkable wisteria tunnel, rose and tulip gardens, and nightly illuminations recognized among Japan's Three Great Illuminations.

Ashikaga · Tochigi

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HANA・BIYORI

A flower park offering year-round blooms, Hana-Biyori showcases the Kanto region's largest flower chandeliers alongside 17,000 seasonal flowers and 1,200 trees of 130 species.

Inagi · Tokyo

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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

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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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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

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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

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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