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Koishikawa Kōrakuen
小石川後楽園Tokyo
Garden
What makes this place special?
At a Glance
Koishikawa Kōrakuen is a large metropolitan garden in the Koishikawa area of Bunkyō, Tokyo. It is a pond-and-hill strolling garden from the early Edo period and one of three surviving daimyō gardens in the city, alongside Rikugi-en and Hama Rikyū. It covers more than 70,000 square metres, with ponds, monumental stones and plantings of plum, cherry, azalea and iris.
Tokugawa Yorifusa, the 11th son of Ieyasu and lord of Mito, began the garden in 1629 as part of the Mito domain's Edo residence. His son Mitsukuni later renovated it and named it Kōrakuen on the advice of the Ming scholar Zhu Zhiyu. After 1869 the grounds passed to the Meiji government, which built an artillery factory on part of them, yet much of the garden survived and received foreign guests. It is now a Special Historic Site and a Special Place of Scenic Beauty.
Goshuin within a short walk
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Visit Duration
60 minutes
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