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  • Honma Museum Garden and adjacent Seienkaku Villa and accompanying Kakubuen Gardens are an excellent spot. Kakubuen Gardens that lead you to the villa named Seienkaku. Take a stroll around the garden, and be sure to notice the circular rock, which when viewed through shows the Tohoku Region’s very own Mt. Fuji, Mt. Chokai. The garden and villa were originally constructed in 1813 as a holiday home for the head of the Honma family, a prominent merchant family in the area whose residence can be visited in a different part of the town. The traditional strolling garden is composed of a central pond and a winding network of trails that provide constantly changing, scenic views.
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  • Hakusan Park Garden is a city park in Niigata City built by the Niigata Prefectural Ordinance at the beginning of the Meiji era, and was converted into a park by Daijo-kan Futatsu.  It was selected as a nationally designated scenic spot in 2018 and it is renowned for being one of the 100 Best Urban Parks in Japan.  The site of the current Hakusan Park is the precincts of Hakusan Shrine next door, which was originally built in the Heian period.  Yankikan Yushintei teahouse was relocated to Hakusan Park in the Heisei era, and is a nationally registered tangible cultural property as the Tsubamekan a former Saito family residence.
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  • Honma Museum Garden and adjacent Seienkaku Villa and accompanying Kakubuen Gardens are an excellent spot. Kakubuen Gardens that lead you to the villa named Seienkaku. Take a stroll around the garden, and be sure to notice the circular rock, which when viewed through shows the Tohoku Region’s very own Mt. Fuji, Mt. Chokai. The garden and villa were originally constructed in 1813 as a holiday home for the head of the Honma family, a prominent merchant family in the area whose residence can be visited in a different part of the town. The traditional strolling garden is composed of a central pond and a winding network of trails that provide constantly changing, scenic views.
    honma-museum-garden-02.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-05.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-01.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-03.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-08.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-04.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-12.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-10.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-09.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-02.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-13.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-07.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-06.jpg
  • Gyokusuien Garden - Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - the scale is like a strolling garden, created by Kinsaku Nakane. The garden located adjacent to the Tanimura Art Museum. Gyokusuien is a pond-viewing garden with a view of the mountains behind it - using Itoigawa’s natural landscape to create living art which grows and changes with each passing season.  Adjacent to the garden is the renowned Tanimura Art Museum, designed by modernist architect Togo Murano in collaboration with Nakane Kinsaku.  The two also collaborated on other projects: nearby Hisuien Jade Garden and Tenjuen in Niigata City.
    Gyokusuien-11.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -03.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -08.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -05.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -06.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -02.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -11.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -10.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -09.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -01.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -04.jpg
  • Hisuien Jade Garden  - A 70 ton boulder of cobalt jade greets you as you enter the gate to this beautifully-landscaped Japanese garden. The site area is 17,000 square meters - the garden is composed of three waterfalls, a wandering pond with curving waterways with a pine forest in the background. It is an elegant strolling garden using megaliths and many large stones. Spring begins with red plums and white plums, followed by fresh greenery and satsuki, followed by moss in the rainy season, autumn leaves of Enkianthus perulatus and maple leaves, and a snowy landscape in winter.  The garden was created by Nakane Kinsaku, and its sister garden nearby Gyokusuien was also created by Nakane.  Hisuien Jade Garden opened in 1978
    Hisuien-Jade-Garden -07.jpg