Botanical Garden Spots in Tokyo Area

Area

Tokyo
- Japan
- Hokkaido / Tohoku
  
  Hokkaido
  
  Aomori
  
  Iwate
  
  Miyagi
  
  Akita
  
  Yamagata
  
  Fukushima
- Kanto
  
  Ibaraki
  
  Tochigi
  
  Gunma
  
  Saitama
  
  Chiba
  
  Tokyo
  
  Kanagawa
- Koshinetsu / Hokuriku
  
  Niigata
  
  Toyama
  
  Ishikawa
  
  Fukui
  
  Yamanashi
  
  Nagano
- Tokai
  
  Gifu
  
  Shizuoka
  
  Aichi
  
  Mie
- Kinki
  
  Shiga
  
  Kyoto
  
  Osaka
  
  Hyogo
  
  Nara
  
  Wakayama
- Chugoku
  
  Tottori
  
  Shimane
  
  Okayama
  
  Hiroshima
  
  Yamaguchi
- Shikoku
  
  Tokushima
  
  Kagawa
  
  Ehime
  
  Kochi
- Kyushu / Okinawa
  
  Fukuoka
  
  Saga
  
  Nagasaki
  
  Kumamoto
  
  Oita
  
  Miyazaki
  
  Kagoshima
  
  Okinawa

Category

Leisure / Hobbies

Leisure / Outdoors

Koishikawa Botanical Garden

4.0

144 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Bunkyou-ku Hakusan 3-7-1

In addition to being the oldest in Japan, this botanical garden also boasts one of the most distinguished histories of any such facility in the world. An amazing variety of plants grow on the garden's 160 thousand square meter grounds. The garden is mostly open to the public and is a popular destination for locals to relax, but note that it is not in fact a public park, so please mind your manners.

It takes 15 minutes on foot from Myogadani Subway Station and you might need about one hour and half to go around. I visited on January 4th which is the very first opening day of a year.it has a...
Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome

4.0

84 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Koutou-ku Yumenoshima 2-1-2 In Yume noisima park

A tropical plant garden, Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome teaches visitors about the interactions between tropical plants in the wild. The facility has a theater, information gallery, and event hall, and visitors can have fun while learning in an environment surrounded by green plants.

Yume no Shima Tropical Greenhouse Doom is located in the Yume no Shima park, several minutes from Kiba station. The doom is filled by tropical plants some of there are Japanese rare plants from...
Gyosen Park

4.0

75 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Edogawa-ku Kitakasai 3-2-1

A 15-minute walk from Nishi-Kasai Station on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line. Plan and built in 1950, this public park is comprised of a zoo and a Japanese garden area. The lush Japanese garden is a strolling-style garden built around a central pond, and here visitors can take in the beauty of the seasons. In the Genshinan teahouse, you can experience Japanese culture; the park also has a playground and a place for fishing. In the zoo area, you can see red pandas, prairie dogs, birds such as the rhinoceros hornbill, turtles, iguanas, and other animals, and also pet rabbits and guinea pigs.

This is a MUST if you visit Tokyo during Cherry Blossom Time [last week of March through to late April]. A short walk SE from Shinjuku Station will take you to a Park entrance. It is beautifully laid...
Jindai Botanical Gardens

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Choufushi Jindaijimotomachi 5-31-10

These botanical gardens in Tokyo’s Chofu City are located directly adjacent to Jindaiji Temple. They opened in 1961 as a nursery to cultivate Tokyo’s roadside trees and other plants. Although it is a famous place for plum and cherry blossoms, visitors can also enjoy a variety of flowers and trees throughout the year, such as a rose garden, azaleas featuring 280 varieties and 12,000 plants, and a large greenhouse where visitors can view approximately 1,300 types of plants. In the spring and autumn the gardens are bustling with many visitors that come for the Bara Festa, a rose festival with more than 5,000 roses on display.
Tokyo Metropolitan Oshima Park Camellia Garden, Camellia Pavilion

4.0

12 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Oshimamachi Senzu Fukushige 2

"A large park in the Sentsu district of northeastern Izu Oshima. The camellia garden has about 3,200 cultivated and 5,000 wild Camellia japonica trees. It's adjacent to the Camellia Museum which provides a variety of camellia related information. The roughly 3.27 square kilometer grounds also have a greenhouse, a rest area, and a lookout. It was certified as an ""International Camellia Garden of Excellence,"" having met a strict set of criteria. Its expansive scale even lead the director of the British chapter of the International Camellia Society to declare it the ""Best in the world."""

1月の椿のシーズンに訪れました。中には様々な種類の椿の花が展示されており、種類による違いを分かりやすく知ることができます。また、隣には売店があり、お土産を購入することもできます。
Horikiri Iris Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Katsushika-ku Horikiri 2-19-1

A botanical garden located in Horikiri, Katsushika City, Tokyo. The garden was created during the Edo period, one of many iris gardens which flourished at the time as sightseeing destinations. The garden's irises reach their peak from early to mid-June. Other flowers such as Japanese apricots, tree peonies, winter cherries, and wisteria come into bloom throughout the year. The Seikan-tei restaurant, which is outfitted with a casual cafe corner, operates on the garden grounds and serves seasonal Japanese dishes.
Tokyo Medical Botanical Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Kodaira-shi Nakajimacho 21-1
Machida Dahlia Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Machidashi Yamasakimachi 1213-1

A botanical garden located in Yamazaki-machi, Machida City, Tokyo. 4,000 dahlia plants consisting of some 500 varieties bloom on the garden's grounds, and visitors can enjoy their unique colors, sizes, and beauty. A variety of events are held at the garden, as well, such as flea markets, and the Moonlight Dahlia Garden event in October in which the garden is illuminated at night.
Ogasawara Subtropical Agricultural Center Exhibition Area

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Ogasawaramura Chichijima Komagari

An agricultural research facility located on Chichijima Island, one of the Ogasawara Islands. The facility consists of areas open to the general public as well as non-public areas occupied by research facilities; visitors may freely visit the public areas. A variety of plants bloom in the public areas, including rare plants native to the Ogasawara Islands, and tropical plants. Tropical fruit trees and other plants grown on the Ogasawara Islands are displayed in an exhibition greenhouse, and these may be freely viewed by visitors. In the facility's palm tree garden, you can see palm trees from around the world. The exhibition garden areas have walking paths, and you can take an enjoyable stroll while viewing tropical plants cultivated on a mountainside. An observatory at the top of the mountain provides a sweeping view of Futami Bay.
Diet Front Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Chiyoda-ku Nagatacho 1

As its name states, this garden sprawls in front of the National Diet Building, one of Tokyo's most well-known structures. The garden specifically consists of a Japanese-style south garden on the right side facing away from the diet building, and a Western-style north garden on the other side of a road. The lush garden is 50,000 square meters in size, and numerous eminent personages have made history here between the Edo period and the present day. Some of the garden's many highlights include an estate which belonged to the Ii, the family which produced chief minister Ii Naosuke; over 120 flowering dogwoods which were gifted as a sign of friendship by the United States of America; and a clock tower which symbolizes the separation of the powers of the three branches of government.
Tsubaki-hana Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Oshimamachi Motomachi Tsu

"A camellia garden on a hill with a great view of Mt. Fuji. At roughly 3,300 square meters, it's a great place to stretch out on the open lawn and enjoy the quintessential Japanese beauty of the flowers and the mountain. About 120 kilometers south of Tokyo, Izu Oshima is known for its camellias and is home to about 3,000,000 of the trees. This garden has 2,000 camellias of roughly 400 varieties, and there are said to be few such well-managed camellia gardens in the world. Since it's met criteria like operating for an extended period, superior management, and having over 200 varieties, it's been certified as an ""International Camellia Garden of Excellence."""
Itabashi Kuritunettaikankyoshokubutukan

4.0

18 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Met. Itabashi-ku Takashimadaira 8-chome 29-2

高島平駅から徒歩5分ほど。東南アジアの熱帯雨林を再現した施設で、隣接する板橋清掃工場の余熱を活用している。1994年開館。入館料は260円。土日等は中学生以下は入館無料となる。見学コースは地下1階のミニ水族館から始まる。名前の通り小さな水族館だが水槽には様々な熱帯魚が泳ぐ姿を見ることができる。1階と2階は熱帯植物園となっており、ジャングルのように熱帯性植物が生い茂る中に見学路が設けられている...
Kokubunji Manyo Shokubutsuen

3.5

16 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Kokubunji-shi Nishimotomachi 1-13-16

万葉集で詠まれている植物を観賞できる庭園です。先代のご住職が採集された約160種類の植物といっしょに和歌の説明板があります。優しく上品な趣があります。
Shiki no Koyatsu Rose Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Nerima-ku Hikarigaoka 5-2-6
Shibakubo Rose Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Nishitokyo-shi Shibakubo 2-chome 21-ban
Hoshiyakka Daigaku Medical Botanical Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Shinagawa-ku Ebara 2-chome 4-41
Showa Pharmaceutical University Medical Botanical Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Machida-shi Higashi Tamagawagakuen 3-chome 3165
Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences Medical Botanical Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Hachioji-shi Horinouchi 1432-1
Meiji Pharmaceutical University Medical Botanical Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Kiyose-shi Noshio 2-chome 522-1
Showa University Faculty of Pharmacy Medical Botanical Garden Hatanodai Yakusoen

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Shinagawa-ku Hatanodai 1-5-8

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