Kiyosumi Garden: This garden used to be the garden of Mitsubishi Zaibatsu, famous for its collection of Japanese stones with lots of birds. (Admission: 300 JPY)

Happo-en's Japanese Garden: This garden used to be the residence of Samurai named Hikozaemon Okubo.

In 1915, Fusanosuke Kuhara started a guest house to welcome foreign businessmen.

He was the founder of many Japanese company such as Hitachi and Nissan.

Happo-en is now successful in wedding party business with this well-maintained garden.

You can see very old Bonsai and varicolored carps in this garden.

Koishikawa Koraku-en Garden: This garden was made in 1626 by Yorifusa Tokugawa who was one of the brothers of Shogun during Edo period. It is a typical stroll type Japanese garden for samurai lords with the scenery of lake Biwa, Ohi river, and Kiso river. It has a wonderful atmosphere in the middle of Tokyo. (Admission: 300 JPY)

Rikugi-en Garden: This is a typical strolling type Japanese garden in Edo period made by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu who loved Japanese old poems. He was a favorite assistant of 5th Shogun Tsunayoshi Tokugawa.

He wanted to reproduce the scenes of Japanese poems.

There are 88 sceneries from the old collection of Japanese poems.

(Admission: 300 JPY)

Hamarikyu Garden: This garden used to be the duck hunting field of the Tokugawa Shoguns during Edo period. There are beautiful ponds with salt water, renovated hunting hedges, rest houses, flower field, and a huge 300-year-old pine tree. (Admission: 300 JPY)

Shinjuku-gyoen Garden: This garden used to be a duck hunting field for samurai lords and the Emperor. This garden is next to Shinjuku area, very large, so many kinds of trees and has a well maintained Japanese garden. It is very popular in the spring with many kinds of cherry blossoms. (Admission: 500 JPY including the guide, closed on Mondays)

Hotel New Otani's Japanese garden: This garden was made and maintained by the high-end hotel, which is open to public for free. It is a compact and wonderful garden with a marvelous waterfall. It has a dry landscape garden, too. (Admission free)

Bonsai is the living art of trees with moss in a flowerpot.

This museum is operated by famous bonsai creator "Kunio Kobayashi".

You can appreciate so many bonsai master peaces in the garden and in the rooms.

(Admission 2,000 JPY/person, including the guide, closed on Mondays)

This property used to be the residence of Furukawa family during Meiji period.

There are Japanese, western rose gardens, and the western style old mansion.

The Japanese garden was bult by Jihey- Ogawa a famous gardener in Kyoto.

You can see many stone lanterns in the garden, dry water fall, and Kyoto style tea house with a moss garden.

This garden is not so popular yet, so is very quiet.

(admission: 150 JPY, 70 JPY over 65)