Keitakuen

photo by Laitche · CC BY-SA 3.0

photo by Sakai Yayoi · CC0

It was the Sumitomo family's garden: they gave it to the city in 1926.

A pond with three islands and a loop of path around it, among stones and trees gathered from all over Japan. It was designed by Ogawa Jihei the Seventh, who made the Heian Jingū garden and Maruyama Park in Kyoto. Outside the wall is Chausuyama, the hill where Sanada Yukimura set up his headquarters during the siege of Osaka in 1615.

A stroll garden around water, built as the garden of the Sumitomo family's main residence at Chausuyama and donated to the municipality of Osaka in 1926. Today it lies within Tennōji Park, next to the municipal art museum, which occupies the site of the house.

ℹ️ Open 9:30–17:00, last entry 16:30; at weekends in May and September it stays open until 18:00. It costs 300 yen for adults and 200 for high school and university students, free up to junior high. Closed on Mondays (the next weekday if it is a public holiday), from 29 December to 1 January, and when there is a typhoon warning. Chausuyama next door is open access and free, 7:00–22:00.

🚉 Dobutsuen-mae · 10 min walk

Sources: city.osaka.lg.jp · osaka-info.jp

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