Kyū-Furukawa Garden

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photo by Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France · CC BY 2.0

Conder's English villa at the top of the slope, a Kyoto garden below. 150 yen.

The drop of the Musashino plateau is the design: above, the Western villa and the European-style garden by Josiah Conder; below, the Japanese garden by Ogawa Jihei, the Kyoto gardener known as Niwashi-Ueji. You walk down from one to the other and the country changes.

First the residence of Mutsu Munemitsu, then of the Furukawa family. Thirty thousand square metres, a typical example of Taishō-period gardens. Opened on 30 April 1956.

ℹ️ Open 9:00–17:00, last entry 16:30. Closed from 29 December to 1 January. Entry 150 yen, 70 for over-65s.

🚉 Komagome · 12 min walk

Sources: tokyo-park.or.jp

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