2020 Japanese Gardens in the United States

Hannah Carter Japanese Garden (Shikyo-en) Privately Owned

The Hannah Carter Japanese Garden covers just over one acre and is located in the community of Bel Air about one mile from campus.

The garden was inspired by the gardens of Kyoto. Many s...

Hakone Gardens

Hakone Gardens is one of the oldest Japanese estate and gardens in the Western Hemisphere. The gardens were originally the private estate of Isabel and Oliver Stine, San Francisco ...

VA West Los Angeles Healthcare Campus Japanese Garden

A very small Japanese Garden that you can walk around.

James Irvine Japanese Garden (JACCC)

The James Irvine Garden (Seiryu-en, or Garden of the Clear Stream) is an oasis in the central city. It was built in the tradition of Japanese Gardens and covers a sloping, tri...

New York Botanical Garden (Brooklyn Botanic Garden) Cherry Blossom Trees, Garden

Enhance your day in Brooklyn by visiting our neighbor, the Brooklyn Museum! Simply buy an Art and Garden ticket here at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and present your receipt for same-day admission to th...

Hermann Park Conservancy with Japanese Garden

May 2017 marked the 25th anniversary of the Japanese Garden, a popular destination in Hermann Park. Over the years, the garden had begun to settle into a Texas-style garden and was at risk of losin...

Japan House, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

It is the mission of Japan House to bring about cultural understanding, to offer exposure to new perspectives and, ultimately, to give a necessary refuge for all to embrace tranquility in an immers...

Birmingham Botanical Gardens - Japanese Gardens

Officially opened by the Japanese Ambassador to the United States in 1967, this 7.5-acre site is actually an interwoven collection of gardens built in the Japanese style, replete with traditional a...

Seattle Japanese Garden - Washington Park Arboretum

The Japanese Garden is a 3.5-acre traditional Japanese stroll garden located within the Washington Park Arboretum. The idea for a Japanese Garden in Seattle had formed by 1909 but it wasn’t until...

Kepaniwai Park - Japanese Garden & Tea House - Iao Valley

A beautiful place to visit that highlights the various diverse immigrant groups: Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese and Korean. Bring a bento box and and sit under various covered pinic areas you can ...

Micke Grove Park and Zoo (Includes Japanese Garden)

Micke Grove Zoo is a small 5-acre zoo that opened in 1957 in Lodi, California. It is located within Micke Grove Regional Park, which includes a Japanese garden, the San Joaquin Historical Mus...

Memphis Botanic Garden - Japanese Garden

Groundbreaking ceremonies for a Japanese Garden, designed by Dr. P.T. Tono of Tokyo and developed in cooperation with the Memphis Bamboo Chapter of Ikebana International, were held in December of 1...

Satsuki Garden, Lendonwood Gardens - Grand Lake

The Satsuki Gardens is located in Grove, Oklahoma within the heart of the Grand Lake area. This attraction offers visitors a one-half acre of garden containing three elements essential to Japanese ...

Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, Long Beach

Japanese Garden (Garden includes a spectacular koi pond, waterfalls, tea house and bonsai collection. Hosting special events, group tours and garden rental is available.)

Note: The gard...

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The Japanese Garden (Suiho-En) - Van Nuys

The Japanese Garden
The balance of positive and negative forces, Yin & Yang, are ever present here. Obvious in the skillful blending of traditional Japanese landscaping wi...

Huntington Library (Japanese Garden)

After a year-long closure and a $6.8 million renovation, the historic Japanese Garden reopened in April, marking its centennial as one of the most beloved and iconic landscapes at The Huntington. C...

Shoseian Whispering Pine Japanese Tea House

Shoseian, built in 1974 through combined efforts of the Sister Cities of Glendale and Higashi-Osaka, Japan is one of the few traditional Japanese Teahouses open to the public in the United States. ...

Morakami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Florida

Since its opening in 1977, The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens has been a center for Japanese arts and culture in South Florida, with rotating exhibitions in its galleries, tea ceremonies perf...

Hayward Japanese Gardens

The site of the Japanese Gardens of the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District has a unique history. This 3.5-acre area was used to house the agricultural studies program studies program of the ...

Marysville Buddhist Church

The Marysville Buddhist Church is a temple within the Jodoshinshu-Hongwanji-ha ('True Pure Land School, Denomination of the Temple of the Primal Vow '), popularly known as Nishi Hongwanji, headquar...

Kubota Gardens

The Kubota Garden Foundation, founded in 1988, is a non-profit corporation that was established to support, enhance, and perpetuate the Kubota Garden within the spirit of Fujitaro Kubota.

DoubleTree Hilton Hotel - Little Tokyo (Rooftop Kyoto Gardens)

The DoubleTree by Hilton Los Angeles Downtown is your relaxing hideaway amongst the bustling attractions and businesses nearby. Enjoy a fresh-baked chocolate chip cookie at check-in, and after a lo...

Japanese Garden at the Botanic Garden - ABQ BIOPARK

Explore more than 1.5 miles of paths through formal and whimsical gardens designed to delight your senses.

Santa Barabara Botanic Garden & ShinKanAn Teahouse and Garden

Widely regarded as a model botanic garden, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is a living museum and a member of the American Alliance of Museums, dedicated to research, education, and conservation o...

Denver Shofu-En Japanese Garden

Denver Botanic Gardens strives to entertain and delight while spreading the collective wisdom of the Gardens through outreach, collaboration and education. Our conservation programs play a major ro...

Buffalo Japanese Garden

The design for the Japanese Garden was conceived in 1970, construction started in 1971 and it was completed in 1974. It represents a gentle, horticultural gesture of sister ship between two sister ...

Fort Worth Botanic Japanese Garden

The Fort Worth Japanese Garden was completed in 1973. It is a traditional stroll garden with winding paths through the landscapes and around ponds. The Garden consists of 7.5 acres filled with ch...

The Japanese Garden at Pocantico - Kykuit Japanese Garden

This Japanese garden is at the country home of John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) which was built just north of Tarrytown in an area known as Pocantico (the word the Rockefellers used when referring...

Frederik Meijer Gardens - Japanese Garden

It was more than four years in the making: June 13, 2015 the Richard and Helen DeVos Japanese Garden opened its magnificent Main Gate to visitors, welcoming a world of timeless tranquility. Tranq...

Shinzen Friendship Garden

Shinzen emerged in the era of sister-city gardens, following World War II, with the building of Japanese gardens to forge friendship and to recognize the significant role of early Japanese immigran...

John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden (Mizumoto)

The oldest attraction at the Springfield Botanical Gardens, the 7.5 acre, Mizumoto Japanese Stroll garden was created in 1985 and includes a large koi lake, moon bridge, meditation garden, tea hous...

Gibbs Garden - Japanese Garden

The Japanese Hill and Pond Stroll garden, “Tsukiyama,” is over 40 acres and the largest Japanese Garden in the nation. Entered through a Torii Gate, a meandering walk descends subtly around sev...

Phoenix Japanese Friendship Garden - Ro Ho En

The Japanese Friendship Garden - Ro Ho En is an authentic 3.5 acre Japanese Stroll Garden with tea house. This tranquil and beautiful setting features more than 1,500 tons of hand picked rock, st...

Museum of Fine Arts - Japanese Garden, Tenshin-en (The Garden of the Heart of Heaven)

Dedicated in October 1988, Tenshin-en, or the “Garden of the Heart of Heaven,” is a contemplative Japanese garden. Named for the Museum’s curator of Chinese and Japanese Art, Kakuzō Okakura ...

Mukai Farm and Garden (Est. 1930s)

The Mukai Farm & Garden celebrates Vashon’s Japanese American and agricultural heritage. With its historic Craftsman house, Japanese Gardens, acreage, and strawberry processing plant, Mukai i...

North Alabama Japanese Garden with Japanese Tea House

The North Alabama Japanese Garden was started in 1988 in the Monte Sano State Park by Robert Black, as just a hobby garden and something to enjoy doing with his children. Maybe a couple hundr...

Boukakuan Japanese Tea House and Garden

Boukakuan Japanese Tea House and Garden is located in Columbus, New Jersey, approximately 30 miles northeast of Philadelphia and 55 miles south of New York City.

It is situated on the grounds...

Cranbrook House and Gardens with Japanese Garden

Japanese Gardens: There are many interesting trees and shrubs in this garden. The Japanese Maples are mature and spectacular. There are large areas of big leaf Petasities, purple Liriope and some ...

Kawachinagano Japanese Garden

The Japanese Style Garden is a serene park located just south of Carmel City Hall that was inspired by representatives from Carmel’s Sister City, Kawachinagano, Osaka, Japan. The garden is a proj...

Hotel Kabuki (Japanese Garden)

Hotel in Japantown.

Anderson Japanese Gardens (12-Acre Japanese Garden)

The Anderson Japanese Gardens is a 12-acre Japanese garden located in Rockford, Illinois.. Construction of Anderson Japanese Gardens began in 1978, when Rockford businessman John Anderson was ins...

Shinwa-En Japanese Garden at CSU Dominguez Hills

Designed in 1978 by Haruo Yamashiro, includes a tea house, located in the courtyard of the Social and Behavioral Sciences building.

Brand Park Japanese Garden - Shoseian 'Whispering Pine' Japanese Tea House

The garden is open to the public Monday - Thursday between 10am to 3pm.

On the third Sunday of each month, the Friends of Shoseian hosts exciting cultural events that are open to the pu...

Portland Japanese Garden

The mission of the Japanese Garden Society of Oregon is to create, maintain, improve, and administer an authentic, world-class Japanese garden in the city of Portland and to offer compatible educat...

Shofuso Japanese House and Garden

This shoin-zukuri (desk-centered) house, built in 17th century style, is located on the grounds of the Horticultural Center in the West Fairmount Park. The perfectly pro...

Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson

Yume Japanese Gardens is the living expression of an ancient Japanese heritage. Covering three quarters of an acre in Tucson, Arizona, it comprises five traditional visions of landscape. In each, n...

Japanese Cultural Center Tea House & Gardens of Saginaw

Welcome to Japanese Cultural Center, Tea House and Gardens of Saginaw
いらっ-ゃいませ。
(I-ra-s-shya-i-ma-se)

Welcome to our strolling garden. Its gate opened in 1971 a...

San Jose Japanese Friendship Garden

This beautiful and tranquil garden is an expanse of peace in the middle of the city. The Japanese Friendship Garden (JFG) is a living symbol of the “Sister City” relationship between Okayama, J...

Amarillo Botanical Gardens - Japanese Garden Opens

In 1929 an enterprising group of hardworking women banded together to create the first garden club of Amarillo. They set out to prove gardening was possible in the challenging high plains of Texas....

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, a top visitor attraction, is more than 1,200 acres of gardens and tree collections, prairie and woods and miles of trails. As a premier northern garden, the Arbor...

University of California - Berkeley Botanical Gardens

When the Golden Gate Exhibition on Treasure Island closed in 1939, the Japanese exhibit was donated to the UC Botanical Garden on behalf of the Japanese government with the aid of the UC Jap...

Lakeside Park Garden Center & Show Gardens - Japanese Garden (Lake Merritt Japanese Garden)

Torii Gate in Lakeside Park is one of eleven themed gardens which are a part of The Gardens at Lake Merritt, in Oakland, California. The Torii Gate traditionally marks the entrance to a sacred Shin...

Myo-Wa-En - Japanese Garden (Not Open to Public - Private Tours)

The garden is not open to the public, although the owner, Boonie Lang, conducts tours twice a year by appointment only. Created in 1986 by garden master Saito Katsuo, then 92 years old, constructio...

San Mateo Central Park - Japanese Gardens

The Japanese Tea Garden was designed by Nagao Sakurai and was installed in 1966. Plants featured in the garden include cherry trees, Japanese maples and bonsai. San Mateo set up a sister-city relat...

Missouri Botanical Garden - Japanese Garden

The Japanese Garden, dedicated in 1977, was designed by the late Professor Koichi Kawana, a native of Japan and lecturer on environmental design and landscape architecture at the University of Cali...

Japanese Garden & Pavilion - Michigan State University (MSU) Tollgate Education Conference Center

A Japanese garden including a pavilion and 17 flowering cherry trees will be constructed at Michigan State University’s Tollgate Farm and Education Center in Novi.

The Sakura Garden ...

Brookside Gardens saved to Japanese Tea House

Brookside Gardens is Montgomery County’s incomparable, award-winning 50-acre public display garden situated within Wheaton Regional Park. Included in the gardens are several distinct areas: Aquat...

Torii Gate Garden, Gardens of Lake Merritt

The Torii Gate and Our Sister City. The large vermillion Torii gate serves as a landmark for the entire Gardens of Lake Merritt. Located at the end of the back entry path and at the edge of the f...

Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park

Sonnenberg_japanese_tea_houseSonnenberg’s Japanese Garden is one of 250 Japanese Gardens in the United States and just one of 100 Japanese Gardens in the U.S. with a tea house. Mrs. Thompson’s ...

Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden

Established during Canada’s Centennial in 1967, Nikka Yuko was built to recognize contributions made by citizens of Japanese ancestry to the multi-cultural community of Lethbridge, Alberta, and a...

Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant - Japanese Garden

The Japanese Garden at the Donald C. Tillman Reclamation Plant was part of Mr. Tillman's vision to create a world class treatment plant that would not only treat wastewater but also provide a sanct...

George & Sakaye Aratani Japanese - Cal Poly Pomona

One might not expect to hear the soothing sounds of a waterfall or enjoy a serene spot near sasa bamboo at a bustling state university such as Cal Poly Pomona. One also might not expect to see an a...

Yamashiro Restaurant (Japanese Garden, View of Los Angeles, Bar)

For 88 years Yamashiro has watched over the history of Hollywood. It has witnessed the birth of the film industry, the glamour of Hollywood's 'Golden Age', the difficult times of war with Japan, an...

Japanese Garden - Hawai'i Nature Center, Maui

Our Mission on O‘ahu & Maui. Hawai‘i Nature Center seeks to foster awareness, appreciation, understanding, and stewardship of Hawai‘i’s environment by educating children with an inter...

Gresham Japanese Garden - Tsuru Island (Sue Do)

The four decades-old Japanese Garden, is only 3/4 of an acre. But it feels expansive. Broadleaf evergreens, pruned pines, vivid azaleas and bouncy groundcover are contained on an island created by ...

Chicago Botanic - Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden

At times 'when the gold ginkgo trees glow in the autumn light, for instance 'it’s easy to overlook the ways in which the Japanese respect for nature and age are revealed in the Elizabeth Hubert M...

Waterfront Botanical Gardens

Waterfront Botanical Gardens has unveiled plans for an authentic Japanese garden that will bring some international flair to the city of Louisville.

The organization shared plans Wednesd...

Japanese House and Garden

This shoin-zukuri (desk-centered) house, built in 16th century style, is located on the grounds of the Horticultural Center in the West Philadelphia section of Fairmount Park. The perfectl...

Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden

American Japanese-style garden design in the 20th century.
The Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden represents a major phenomenon in American cultural history. The appreciation an...

Miami Friends of the Japanese Garden

In 1957, Mr. Kiyoshi Ichimura, Founder of Ricoh Corporation of Japan, attended a camera exhibition and show in the United States. On his way from Japan to the exhibition, he stopped in Miami. Looki...

Frank Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

Bringing joy to the lives of over ten million guests since 1995 and still growing! Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park promotes the enjoyment, understanding and appreciation of gardens, sc...

Walt Disney World in Orlando, Epcot - Japan Pavilion

The Japan Pavilion is a Japanese-themed pavilion that is part of the World Showcase, within Epcot at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, United States. Its location is between The American Adven...

Normandale Japanese Garden

The Japanese Garden is a 2 acre oasis of beauty and serenity. Normandale Community College's Japanese Garden was built by the Bloomington Affiliated Garden Clubs. Plans for the garden began in 19...

Esplanade, Yerba Buena Gardens

Located in the heart of the City’s downtown cultural district, Yerba Buena Gardens the perfect place to play, dine, shop or just relax. You can embrace your every mood, celebrate diversity, and f...

Liliuokalani Park and Gardens in Hilo

Liliʻuokalani Park and Gardens is a 24.14-acre park with Japanese gardens, located on Banyan Drive in Hilo on the island of Hawaiʻi. The park's site was donated by Queen Liliʻuokalani, and...

Nishinomiya Tsutakawa Japanese Garden in Manito Park

The Nishinomiya Tsutakawa Japanese Garden is a place where nature, tranquility and beauty come ltogether. The garden is open daily from 8 a.m. to one half hour before dusk, April 1st through Octobe...

Nikkei National Museum

Our mission is to honour, preserve, and share Japanese culture and Japanese Canadian history and heritage for a better Canada.

Nikkei Centre is a multi-use facility at the corner of King...

Topeka Zoo - Japanese Garden (Coming)

The Topeka Zoo is excited to offer Summer Adventure Camp!

There are 9 different weeks of summer camp for children ages 6-12; these camps run from 9:00-3:00 Monday-Friday. Each camp week will ...

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