Kyū-Iwasaki-tei Gardens
Meiji-era mansion in English Jacobean style, linked by a secret tunnel to a Swiss-chalet billiard house.
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This guide to the Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Gardens in Tokyo traces what businessman Hisaya Iwasaki, son of the Mitsubishi founder, built in 1896 to announce his return from studying in America: a mansion designed by Josiah Conder, the British architect who taught Japan Western architecture. The original estate once sprawled across two dozen buildings before American occupation forces seized it and turned it into Japan's judicial training institute for two decades. Look for the traces of that larger, vanished estate as you walk the grounds.
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