Laid out in 1702 around a theme of waka poetry. Admission 300 yen.
It is not a garden with verses beside it: it is built on the verses. The name comes from a Chinese classification of poetry, and the strolling hill-and-pond layout turns the waka into a path. Eighty-seven thousand square metres in the middle of Bunkyō.
Commissioned in 1702 by Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, trusted retainer of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun, that is, the military ruler who governed in place of the emperor. Area 87,809 square metres, with maples and cherry trees.
ℹ️ Open 9:00–17:00, last entry 16:30. Closed from 29 December to 1 January. Admission 300 yen, 150 for over-65s; free for junior high school students who live in Tokyo.
🚉 Komagome · 6 min walk
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