Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CH5LMLcHPE5rsXgS7

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/index.html

■ East Gate

5 minutes walk from Suidobashi Station (JB17) West Exit on the JR Sobu Line

6 minutes walk from Korakuen Station (M22 / N11) Exit 2 on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line and Namboku Line

8 minutes walk from Suidobashi Station (I11) Exit A2 on the Toei Mita Line

■ West Gate *Please enter from the West Gate if you are using Kantoku-tei.

3 minutes walk from Iidabashi Station (E06) Exit C3 on the Toei Oedo Line

8 minutes walk from Iidabashi Station (JB16) East Exit on the JR Sobu Line

8 minutes walk from Iidabashi Station (T06 / Y13 / N10) Exit A1 and A3 on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line, Yurakucho Line, and Namboku Line

8 minutes walk from Korakuen Station (M22 / N11) Exit 1 and Exit 2 on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line and Namboku Line

No parking available

There are bicycle parking areas inside both the West and East Gates

🇯🇵JAPAN

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

There are only nine such places nationwide,

including Kinkaku-ji (Rokuon-ji), Ginkaku-ji (Jisho-ji), Sanboin of Daigo-ji in Kyoto City,

the site of Heijokyo Sakyo Sanjo Nibogyo in Nara Prefecture,

Itsukushima in Hiroshima Prefecture, Motsu-ji Garden in Iwate Prefecture,

and the Ichijodani Asakura Clan Ruins in Fukui Prefecture.

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CH5LMLcHPE5rsXgS7

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/index.html

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

It is designated as a national cultural property as a Special Historic Site

and Special Place of Scenic Beauty under the Cultural Properties Protection Law.

Only two Tokyo Metropolitan gardens,

Hamarikyu Gardens and this garden,

have received dual designation as both Special Historic Sites

and Special Places of Scenic Beauty.

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CH5LMLcHPE5rsXgS7

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/index.html

🇯🇵JAPAN

We are introducing the wonderful scenery of Tokyo Lo-Fi Music on YouTube.

The main video is available on YouTube. Please check the link in my profile.

#tokyo #japan #tokyosightseeing #tokyoTourist #tokyotravel #tokyotrip #tokyoguide

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@Tokyo_Lo-FiMusic

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/tokyolofimusic/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/people/TOKYO-LOFI-MUSIC/61569858926312/

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

The name “Korakuen” was derived from the phrase “Sen Tenka no Urei ni Ure,

Go Tenka no Raku ni Raku”

(roughly, “Worry before the world worries, enjoy after the world enjoys”)

from Fan Zhongyan’s “Yueyang Lou Ji” in the Song Dynasty,

after Mitsukuni took the advice of Zhu Shunshui,

a Confucian scholar from the neighboring Ming Dynasty who had fled to Japan.

This phrase teaches the ethics of rulers, which Mitsukuni adopted as his political creed.

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CH5LMLcHPE5rsXgS7

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/index.html

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

The “Oizumi Pond” at the center and many other ponds

in the garden were supplied by the Kanda Aqueduct in the Edo period.

It was rare for an aqueduct to run through a samurai residence,

and traces of it can still be seen at the “Kanda Aqueduct Site” today.

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/index.html

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

The garden style with a central pond,

a strolling garden,

was a pioneer among Edo daimyo gardens

and had a significant influence on later daimyo gardens.

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/index.html

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

The garden features a “strolling-style hill and pond garden” where diverse landscapes unfold, with the “Oizumi Pond” at the center representing the “sea” scenery. Surrounding it are connected “mountain,” “river,” and “rural (village)” sceneries.

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/index.html

#tokyo #japan #tokyosightseeing #tokyoTourist #tokyotravel #tokyotrip #tokyoguide

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@Tokyo_Lo-FiMusic

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/tokyolofimusic/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/people/TOKYO-LOFI-MUSIC/61569858926312/

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

The “Korakuen” garden, with its attractions modeled after famous places and classics of Japan and China, has been in stark contrast to the bright and open Rikugien Garden since its creation.

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/index.html

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

Utilizing the undulating terrain and natural forests located on the southern edge of the Koishikawa plateau,

the garden design inherited from the founder Yorifusa,

who modeled it after scenic spots throughout Japan,

was incorporated with Chinese tastes reflecting Confucian ideas during Mitsukuni’s era as added scenery.

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/index.html

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden

As a famous garden associated with Mito Komon,

Koishikawa Korakuen was originally constructed in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa,

the first lord of the Mito Tokugawa family,

as his middle residence in Edo

(later becoming his main residence after the Great Fire of Meireki),

and completed by the second lord,

Mitsukuni. It is the oldest existing daimyo garden in Edo.

1-6-6 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo

🇯🇵JAPAN

We are introducing the wonderful scenery of Tokyo Lo-Fi Music on YouTube.

The main video is available on YouTube. Please check the link in my profile.

#tokyo#japan#tokyosightseeing#tokyoTourist#tokyotravel#tokyotrip#tokyoguide