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Kitanomaru Park (北の丸公園, Kitanomaru Kōen) is a public park in Chiyoda, central Tokyo, Japan, just north of the Tokyo Imperial Palace. It is the location of the Nippon Budokan indoor sports and performance venue, the Science Museum, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
on the campus of the University of Tokyo; formerly part of the residence of the Maeda clan of the Kaga Domain 35°42′31″N 139°45′43″E / 35.708660°N 139.761962°E / 35.708660; 139.761962 ( Kaitokukan
Hama-rikyū Gardens (浜離宮恩賜庭園, Hama-rikyū Onshi Teien) is a metropolitan garden in Chūō ward, Tokyo, Japan. Located at the mouth of the Sumida River, it was opened to the public on April 1, 1946. A landscaped garden of 250,216 m² includes Shioiri-no-ike (Tidal Pond), and the garden is surrounded by a seawater moat filled by ...
Showa period Nihongi painter studio; also a Place of Scenic Beauty Former Residence and Garden of Yokoyama Taikan 35°42′44″N 139°46′06″E / 35.71211°N 139.76820°E / 35.71211; 139.76820 ( Former Residence and Garden of Yokoyama
Inokashira Park (井の頭恩賜公園, Inokashira Onshi Kōen) is a park which straddles Musashino and Mitaka in western Tokyo, Japan. Inokashira Pond (井の頭池) and the Kanda River water source (神田上水, Kanda jōsui), established during the Edo period, are the primary sources of the Kanda River. The land was given to Tokyo in 1913.
The Koishikawa Kōrakuen (小石川後楽園) is a large urban park in the Koishikawa neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese garden dates from the early Edo period. [1] and is one of three surviving daimyō gardens of the many that were created during that period, the others being the Rikugi-en and the Hama Rikyū gardens. [2]
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A traditional Japanese tea house is in the gardens. The garden is a favourite hanami ( cherry-blossom viewing) spot, and large crowds can be present during cherry blossom season. The garden has more than 20,000 trees, including approximately 1,500 cherry trees , which bloom from late March ( Shidare or Weeping Cherry) to early April ( Somei or ...