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

This garden used to be the mansion of Mito Tokugawa, wonderful atmosphere in the middle of Tokyo. (Admission: 300 JPY)

This is a typical strolling type Japanese garden in Edo period made by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu who loved Japanese old poems. (Admission: 300 JPY)

This garden used to be the duck hunting field of the Tokugawa shoguns with salt water ponds and a 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)

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)