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Travel / Tourism

Other Sightseeing

Shimizu-tei Garden

4.0

13 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Shizuoka Kakegawa-shi Nishiobuchi 5298-2

This home and garden is about a three-minute walk from both the Nishibancho bus stop and the Shinyokosuka bus stop or about a 20-minute drive from Kakegawa Interchange. It is located on the left heading east from Yokosuka Castle Ruin Park via Prefectural Route 41 and Prefectural Route 69. The home was built as the residence of the Shimizu family, which made its fortune as Kaisen donya shipping agents during the Edo period. The family even served as purveyors for the region's feudal lords. The home's kaiyu-shiki garden is believed to have been completed during the mid Edo period. The beauty of the extremely clear spring water in the garden's central pond earned it a spot on the list of Shizuoka Prefecture's 100 best waterfronts in 2001.

園内を散策しましたが整備されていて見た目もよく池も庭もとても綺麗でした。茶店のお茶もおいしかったです。
Seikien Garden

4.0

13 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamagata Sakata-shi Hamada 1-11-13

This garden is in Hamada 1-Chome, Sakata City. It was built in 1891, with design by master gardener Yamada Soyu, as part of a second home for local lord Ito Shirouemon. The once-huge garden where they also had a rice paddy on a premise, and is now a scaled-down public garden. The second-home building is now a rental hall available for tea ceremonies, etc.

最初にこちらを訪問すると最初に驚かされるのは玄関に獅子の阿吽（？）石像（添付写真参照）があることです。この驚きを持って内部に足を踏み入れると内装の見た目は非常に地味なのですが 3種類あった釘隠しは凝っており特に亀（添付写真参照）はその緻密さに驚かされます。又廊下の床板や長押（なげし）を見ると全く継ぎ目がありません。更に床の間などに使用されている木材も凝っており建...
Miyama British Garden

3.5

13 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Tamanoshi Tai 2-4470 Roadside Station Inside Miyama Park

This garden is located inside Miyama Park along National Route 30 in Tai, Tamano City. It opened in 2000 as a commemoration project for the 60th anniversary of Tamano becoming a city. Designed by the British garden technician Peter Thurman with the concept of a traditional British garden in the 20th century, it is possible to enjoy the four seasons in the garden with its eight separate gardens each with different themes.

たまたま行った日が、高校生のイベントをしている日だったのでいつも以上にいろいろとデコられていてかわいらしかったです。
Hakusasonso, Hashimoto Kansetsu Garden and Museum

4.5

4 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Joudojishibashichou 37

Hakusasonso, a memorial to the Japanese-style painter Hashimoto Kansetsu, is located near Ginkakuji Temple (Silver Pavilion) in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward. The villa that Hashimoto designed for himself and the four-season garden are open to the public. Hashimoto's works are displayed inside the house, and other exhibits, such as his collection, are displayed there as well. There is a restaurant on the premises, and tourists appreciate it as a quiet spot to relax after visiting Ginkakuji.

I have been coming to Osaka on business trips for more than twenty years and whenever possible I arrange a day trip to Kyoto. Almost every time my way leads me to this pittoresque small garden which...
Keitakuen Garden

Travel / Tourism

Osaka Osakashi Tennouji-ku Chausuyamachou 1-108

A classic Japanese garden with tress and ponds in Tennoji Park in Osaka. The Sumitomo family donated the garden to the city in 1926. It was designed by Ogawa Jihei VII, who is said to have established modern garden landscaping, and who also designed the Heian Jingu Shrine gardens and Maruyama Park in Kyoto. The center of the park has a large pond, with artificial hills, stepping stones, and bridges that allow you to feel the movement of the water. The tea house can be used for tea ceremonies, poetry readings, and commemorative photoshoots.
English Garden Rosa & Berry Tawada

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Pref. Maibarashi Tawada 605-10

This botanical garden is situated in Prefectural Route 246 in Tawada, Maibara City. In addition to a garden planted with roses, perennial plants, and cherry trees, facilities include a restaurant, cafe, and barbecue area where you can grill vegetables you harvest yourself. There's also an activity studio, grape house offering grape picking, vegetable patch, field where you can pet sheep, a shop, and more. There's also an area with the world's first life-sized sculpture of British claymation character Shaun the Sheep.
Onshirin Garden

4.5

8 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Fujiyoshida-shi Kamiyoshida 5605

A garden located a five-minute drive from the Yamanakako Interchange and the Fujiyoshida Interchange, and 10 minutes from the Kawaguchiko Interchange. The European-style garden's five hectare grounds are situated 934.8 meters above sea level and its flower beds bloom with flowers year round. There's also a grass field, Japanese larch walking path, and a medicinal herb garden. Visitors can also enjoy the natural scenery to be found here and observe wild birds as well as rainbow trout swimming in the garden's pond. Thanks to its location close to Mt. Fuji, lava rock can be discovered here as well.

アスレチックもあり、子供たちがたくさん遊んでいます。入園料もかからないので、これだけ大きなアスレチックがあるのは珍しいです。
Jukaen

4.0

9 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Saga Saga-shi Yamatocho Umeno 244-11

The garden was built on the former villa of the Nabeshima family. 30,000 azaleas and 10,000 rhododendrons bloom in the spring, and the autumn leaves turn the entire area a brilliant red, making it a beautiful sight in any season.

We drove a long way and the park was closed. Suggest to get your hotel concierge to call your touring places before going. It seems that they were closed for maintenance. It’s a beautiful park to...
Herb Garden Pocket

4.0

8 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Chiba Pref. Choushishi Kasagamichou 7005

This herb garden is in Choshi City. It grows a variety of plants such as jasmine, rosemary, and blueberries. Visitors can pick lavender year-round. Workshops to make bouquets, bath additives, and pressed flowers are available, and they have gardening courses as well. Other facilities include a tree house, a gift shop, and a restaurant that uses organic herbs grown on site.

この付近だと海鮮ばかりなので、軽くお茶するには最適です。ハーブも展示即売していますが、旅の途中、持ち帰りには宅配便が便利です。季節が、春夏ならハーブも茂りもっと楽しいと思います。入場無料なので、時間調整に覗いてみるのもあり。ただ、細い道を入るので、看板に注意してください。
Koshin-an Historical Garden

3.5

8 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Ehime Matsuyama-shi Misakemachi 2-6-7

This park is in Misake-machi 2-chome, Matsuyama city. This historical park is centered around the registered historic landmark of Koushin-an, a retreat built by local poet Kurita Chodo in 1800. It's still used for poetry meets, tea ceremonies, cultural lectures and more, as well as seasonal events, like the Fujimatsuri held when the creeping wisteria is in bloom.

俳人栗田樗堂の残した草庵とお庭が復元されていて無料で拝見できます。今も講座や講演会が催され、句会や茶会も行われているそう。宿泊していた大街道からは遠そうだなあと思っていましたが道後温泉の帰りに乗った路面電車はJR松山駅行き。「あれ、近くまで行くのでは？」と探しながら伺いました。閑静な佇まいで一度スルーしてしまってましたが何とか10分程度で到着。入口のパンフを眺めていたところ中からお声か...
Mitsuke English Garden

5.0

6 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nigata Pref. Mitsukeshi Shinkouchou 6-35

This English-style garden can be accessed by taking the Community Bus from JR Mitsuke Station to the Sangyodanchi / English Garden bus stop and then walking another five minutes. Designed by garden designer Kay Yamada to be friendly to the elderly and the physically challenged, the garden's plants are maintained by the Natural Gardening Club, a gathering of local volunteers. The garden is a great place to enjoy the beauty of each of Japan's four seasons. The garden also operates a nursery that raises flower seedlings for public facilities and other customers as part of a local greening movement.

新潟から長岡に向かって国道8号を走り、見附のplantの辺りで左に曲がり、新幹線のガードをくぐった所にあります。隣にはホテルが併設されています。入場料は無料ですが、その100円程度の協力金が呼びかけられています。春に行ったので、中の庭園は、色とりどりのチューリップが咲いていました。変わった形の花を付けたチューリップもありました。トイレの建物の前にある藤棚が見事で、藤の匂いが、マスクをして...
Mori Shigemitsu’s Garden

4.0

7 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Pref. Minamikyushushi Chiranchoukori 13731-1

The site of a former samurai residence located in Chiran-cho, Kagoshima Prefecture. Amongst the group of samurai residences in Chiran, which frequently sport dry rock “waterfalls,” this garden is the only one which makes abundant use of water and which is built around a central pond. The pond forms a beautifully curving arc, while the garden’s foreground makes use of lanterns and stone to represent peninsulas and mountains. Further in, a stunningly formed boulder with a hole in its center is used to represent a cavern. Other intriguingly shaped rocks and greenery are arranged at the back of the pond to frame the beautiful mountains in the distance.

知覧の武家屋敷の庭園群の最後に訪れたのが、こちらの西郷恵一郎邸庭園です。７ヶ所の庭園の中で一番西側に位置しています。こちらの庭園は、奥の中心部に高さのある石組みがあり、それが迫力ある構成の要になっているように思えました。こちらの庭園が一番好きかも・・・
Negoroji Garden

4.0

7 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Wakayama Iwade-shi Negoro 2286

This garden is located on the grounds of Negoroji Temple about a two-minute drive from the Iwade-Negoro Interchange on the Keinawa Expressway. The Chisen-shiki Horai Teien faces the Nagusa Goten, a building bestowed to the temple by the Kishu Tokugawa family, and also features a natural waterfall and pond. The Karesansui Teien is a Japanese rock garden featuring a pond. The Shoten-ike pond, meanwhile, is thought to have been built during the Heian period, the same era during which Negoroji Temple was founded. All three have been designated as national places of scenic beauty. The Daito pagoda that conspicuously stands 40 meters above the temple's grounds has been designated as a national treasure.

根来寺本坊の奥の庭園で、江戸時代に作庭され小堀遠州作という説もあるそうです。名草御殿の手前から踏み石がリズミカルに並び、光明殿の建物と、奥の山、白砂、池、滝、島と石橋など、どこを切り取っても絵になる日本庭園のお手本のようなバランスの取れたお庭です。
Shinonome no Sato

4.5

6 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Izumi-shi Kamiokawauchi 2881

This vast garden covering more than 130,000 square meters was created deep in the mountains east from JR Izumi Station along National Route 447. Visitors can enjoy seasonal scenery such as spring cherry blossoms and hydrangea, autumn foliage, and winter snowscapes. The garden is best known for having one of Japan's biggest hydrangea gardens. Its 100,000 hydrangea, which represent 160 different varieties, come into full bloom every June. The garden also features gallery of pottery created by the garden's owner as well as a soba shop that offers cakes, coffees and other cafe fare. Visitors can enjoy spending time away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

鹿児島県の出水市にあるネットで見つけた...
Sakai-shi Teien Garden

4.0

6 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamagata Tsuruoka-shi Kachushinmachi 10-18 (Chido Hakubutsukan Uchi)

This garden is attached to the Chido Museum, in Kachushinmachi, Tsuruoka City. This hill-and-pond garden was built on the north side of Shonai domain lord Sakai's former retirement residence. This is a nationally registered Place of Scenic Beauty due to its value as one of the few remaining residential gardens of the Tohoku region.

どんよりとした曇り空の為か、全体的に暗く感じてしまいました。晴れていれば随分と美しい庭園でしょうね。
Senhime Botan Garden

3.5

6 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyogo Himeji-shi Honmachi 68

The garden is located on the west side of San-no-maru square in Himeji Castle, and visitors can see peonies in full bloom on the hillside. The Senhime Botan Festival is held around the end of April every year, with a variety of events including a parade in which a procession of the Princess Senhime-sama is carried into the castle.

姫路城の手前西側、三の丸の高台にある庭園です。千姫の義父、本多忠政の屋敷があったところです。訪問するのはぜひ牡丹の咲く季節か紅葉の季節がよいと思います。ちょっと早い時期でしたので残念でした。忘れずにぜひ立ち寄ってほしいところです。
Kokokuji Temple Garden

5.0

4 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Shimane Izumo-shi Kunidomicho 1301

Daiunzan Kokokuji belongs to the Myoshinji school of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. It's about a five-minute drive from Tabushi station on the Ichibata Electric Railway. The temple was built in 1322 by the Zen priest Koho Kakumyo with contributions from the Yasukuni clan who ruled locally. The rock garden to the north of the study was created from the middle to late Edo period. It is a quaint garden that incorporates the scenery of the reservoir at Mt. Tabushi and a traditional dry landscape garden characteristic of Zen temples. Trees growing around the pond give the viewer even more of a sense of brightness and grandeur. The garden has appeared time and again in the American publication Journal of Japanese Gardening.

出雲市からそこそこいった場所にある落ち着いた寺に位置している庭園です。古き良き歴史観も感じられます。
Taira Family Garden

3.0

6 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Ishikawa Hakui-gun Shikamachi Machi 30-63

A garden considered to represent Noto’s gardening culture. Members of the mighty Taira family once served as the headsmen of 13 villages under the direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate government. The family is said to have descended from the chief vassal of the Hatakeyama clan, whose members served as the governors of Noto Province, and they possessed a vast, 20,000-square-meter estate. This famous shoin-style garden was designed for enjoying the view of a central pond from the estate and was built in the mid-Edo period and bears aspects of both Muromachi period and Edo period gardening styles. One of the most celebrated private house Japanese gardens in the Noto area, it has been designated a Prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty due to its excellently preserved condition.

この平家は、木曾義仲に敗れて、この地の落ち延びた平家の末裔。能登国の守護畠山氏の重臣の一人、平式部大夫の子孫と伝えられ、江戸時代には天領の大庄屋を勤めた。屋敷から眺める池泉観賞式の書院庭園で、池泉と四季を通じて青苔に覆われた築山からなる枯淡静寂のたたずまいである。敷地は、南西から東南に面した鉤形になっており、現存する書院とともに、江戸中期における天領大庄屋時代の面影を偲ぶに足る格式を伝え、能登地...
Fukada Family Garden

3.5

5 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tottori Yonago-shi Kuzumo 5-6-22

"Legend says San'in's oldest garden was visited by Emperor Go-Daigo when he was exiled to the Oki Islands at the fall of the Kamakura shogunate. It's one of only two early Edo period ""crane and tortoise"" gardens left in the country, the other being at Kyoto's Saihojji Temple, also known as the moss temple. The small ornamental pond style garden has a bit of a Horai Garden feel. Designed after natural scenery, the pond has an island representing ""Shinsen Island"" as a prayer for prosperity. Designs that became formalized in the Edo period can be seen throughout the garden; it has been registered as a National Site of Scenic Beauty. Be sure to call in advance before visiting."

人が住んでいるようにも思いますが、庭の方には自由に入れる仕組みです。ここは、後醍醐天皇が隠岐の島に配流の際に立ち寄ったという言い伝えも持つ庭。池を中心に松の枝ぶりも独特の趣きだし、とっても風情がありますねえ。一見の価値ありです。
Unjuji Temple

3.5

5 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Shimane Yasugi-shi Kiyoicho 281

A Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple that is counted among of the oldest Zen temples in the Izumo region. It was founded in 1322 by the priest Koho Kakumyo who had earned the trust of Emperor Godaigo and Emperor Gomurakami. The precious large shikyakumon four-pillared gate at the end of the pine tree lined approach dates from the 1300s and escaped fires, helping it survive to the present day. The precincts are also home to one of the prefecture's few Korean bells. The temple is also a popular spot for viewing azaleas; the site of hundreds of them blooming together is superb.

清水寺に行く途中で立ち寄りました。駐車場がやや貧弱でしたが、手書きの案内に従って進むと素晴らしい楼門や庭園がありました。本堂も予想以上に立派でした。中国観音霊場なので観音様の像もありました。社務所で御朱印をいただくことができました。