Garden six poems

Perhaps this is the most beautiful garden in Tokyo, which can serve as a model in the Japanese-style garden design. Once the park belonged to the heir of the founder of "Mitsubishi", who donated his Tokyo.





Sunny, with small hills and vast body of water. Water, mountains and plants together create 88 landscape scenes described in the famous Japanese epic Monesyui.



The garden grows about 7,000 trees and 29,000 shrubs, including many apple trees, pine trees, plums, camphor trees, different varieties of camellias and azaleas, evergreen magnolia and cherry. Rikugi-en has the status of a national landmark



In 1695, the fifth shogun gave the land to his loyal samurai, who dug her lake and created a miniature mountain. This garden has been here more than three hundred years ago. And today he is on the same spot, surrounded by tall houses - an oasis of tranquility.



In the gardens there is a central pond Rikugien, islands, forests, artificial hills, several teahouses.



Here you can see the twisted trunks of pines, grasses, curved bridges. Lagoon filled with small carp and turtles. The park has a lot of birds.











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