Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden（旧岩崎邸庭園）
Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden, known as a garden where the winds of time blow, was built in 1896 as the main residence of Hisaya Iwasaki, the eldest son of Yataro Iwasaki and the third president of Mitsubishi.
In its heyday, 20 buildings stood on approximately 15,000 tsubo (about 12 acres), but now only three buildings remain: the Western-style house, the billiard room, and the main hall of the Japanese-style house.
The two-story wooden Western-style house with a basement was designed by Josiah Conder, a British architect famous for designing the Rokumeikan, and is a Western-style wooden building representative of modern Japanese housing.
The interior is decorated with magnificent Jacobean-style decorations throughout, and the delicate design, unlike many Western-style buildings built during the same period, retains the atmosphere of the past.
The Conder-designed billiard room (billiard hall), built as a separate building, is a Swiss chalet-style wooden building that was very rare in Japan at the time, and is connected to the Western-style house by an underground passage.
The Japanese-style house, connected to the Western-style house, is based on the shoin-zukuri style, and the tokonoma and fusuma have remaining screen paintings said to have been drawn by Meiji-era Japanese painter Gaho Hashimoto.
You can catch a glimpse of the elaborate pure Japanese-style architecture of the time, centered around the existing main hall.
The vast garden, partly following the daimyo garden style, is a combination of Japanese and Western styles in its architectural style, and retains an early form of a modern garden with a “lawn garden.”
It became national property in 1952, was requisitioned by the GHQ after the war, and after its return, was used as the Supreme Court Judicial Research and Training Institute.
In 1961, the Western-style house and the billiard room were designated as Important Cultural Properties, and in 1969, the main hall of the Japanese-style house, along with the sleeve wall east of the Western-style house, and in 1999, the entire site including the brick wall and the measured drawings were each designated as Important Cultural Properties.
Address: 1-3-45 Ikenohata, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Phone: 03-3823-8340
Website: https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/kyu-iwasaki-tei/index.html
Transportation:
Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line “Yushima” (C13), 3 minutes walk from Exit 1
(For strollers and wheelchairs, please use the elevator at Exit 3)
Tokyo Metro Ginza Line “Ueno-hirokoji” (G15), 10 minutes walk
Toei Subway Oedo Line “Ueno-okachimachi” (E09), 10 minutes walk
JR Yamanote Line/Keihin-Tohoku Line “Okachimachi”, 15 minutes walk
No parking available.
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