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123 places(showing 1–24)
Tokyo
One of Tokyo finest gardens - English, French and Japanese landscapes in one.
Hakone
A volcanic valley and a pirate-ship cruise with Mt. Fuji on the horizon.
Kyoto
A towering green corridor of swaying bamboo on Kyoto western edge.
Nara
Over a thousand free-roaming deer that bow for crackers.
A cherry-lined canal walk through Kyoto's eastern hills, linking Ginkaku-ji and Nanzen-ji.
Japan's oldest public botanical garden, with a huge conservatory and seasonal flower displays by the Kamo River.
Kyoto's most famous cherry-blossom park, centred on a floodlit weeping cherry behind Yasaka Shrine.
The vast, tree-filled park surrounding Kyoto's old Imperial Palace, free and open around the clock.
A seventeenth-century imperial villa whose strolling pond garden is considered a masterpiece of Japanese design.
A grand seventeenth-century imperial retreat in the eastern hills, famous for its sweeping borrowed-scenery garden.
A tranquil pond garden a few minutes from Kyoto Station, attached to the Higashi Hongan-ji temple.
Kyoto's beloved central river, with grassy banks, cherry trees and summer dining platforms.
A hilltop reserve above Arashiyama where wild Japanese macaques roam and the whole city spreads out below.
A two-hour traditional boat ride down a scenic gorge from Kameoka to Arashiyama, through rapids and forest.
Osaka
A 6.5-hectare lawn garden west of Osaka Castle keep, framed by around 300 cherry trees and the castle's stone walls and moat.
A forested valley within a quasi-national park, its 33-metre waterfall reached by an easy 2.8 km riverside trail famed for autumn color.
A vast green park on the former 1970 World Expo site, crowned by Taro Okamoto's Tower of the Sun and a superb strolling Japanese garden.
A refined Taisho-era strolling garden, once the Sumitomo family's private grounds, hidden inside Tennoji Park.
Osaka's oldest public park, a riverside sandbank of lawns and a 3,700-bush rose garden framed by grand early-20th-century buildings.
A 24-hectare municipal botanical garden of seasonal flower fields, ponds and woodland within the greenery of Nagai Park.
A large, hilly suburban park north of Osaka whose open-air museum preserves a dozen genuine thatched farmhouses from across Japan.
A huge park on the 1990 Garden Expo site, home to Japan's largest conservatory and a windmill-topped seasonal flower field.
A stylish central park with Osaka's oldest rose garden, a cherry-lined promenade and a fashionable cafe scene at its edges.
A four-kilometre riverside park along the Okawa lined with some 4,700 cherry trees, Osaka's premier hanami destination.
