Perhaps it the most beautiful Tokyo Garden, which can serve as a model of Japanese style in garden design. Once the park belonged to the heir of the founder of Mitsubishi, who donated his Tokyo. The sunny, with small hills and a vast pond. Water, mountains and plants together create 88 landscape scenesdescribed in the well-known Japanese epic of Montesquieu. In the garden grows about 7 thousand trees and 29 thousand shrubs, among which there are a lot of apple trees, pines, plums, camphor trees, various varieties of camellias and azaleas, evergreen magnolias and sakura. Rikugien Garden has the status of a national landmark. In 1695, the fifth shogun presented this land to his faithful samurai who dug lakes on it and created miniature mountains. This garden was here more than three hundred years ago. And today it is in the same place, surrounded by tall houses - an oasis of tranquility.

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