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Kyu-Furukawa Gardens
旧古河庭園Kita, Tokyo
Garden
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At a Glance
Kyu-Furukawa Gardens is a Tokyo metropolitan garden in Nishigahara, Kita Ward, with a Western-style mansion, a rose garden and a Japanese garden. Baron Furukawa Toranosuke had it built in the early twentieth century. The English architect Josiah Conder designed the mansion and Western garden, completed in 1917, and Ogawa Jihei VII designed the Japanese garden, finished in 1919.
The mansion stands on top of a hill, the Western rose garden lies on the slope and the Japanese garden at the bottom. Its exterior and ground-floor rooms are Western in style, while most upstairs rooms are Japanese, with tatami. At the centre of the stroll garden is Shinji-ike, a pond shaped like the kanji for heart, ringed by stone lanterns, hills and a tea house. The park opened to the public in 1956 and is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty.
Goshuin within a short walk
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Visit Duration
75 minutes
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