Garden
Rikugien Gardens
6-chōme-16-3 Honkomagome, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 113-0021
Edo-period strolling garden with eighty-eight miniature scenes recreating classical waka poems.
This guide to Rikugien Gardens in Tokyo follows Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, a low-ranking samurai who rose to become one of the most powerful men in Japan, and the garden he built in 1695 as a physical map of eighty-eight classical waka poems. It traces what happened after his death, when the design fell into decades of neglect, and how Mitsubishi founder Iwasaki Yataro bought the ruined estate in 1878 to save it. Stand by the pond, Osawa-no-ike, and look toward Fujishiro hill.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.