# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel - [Ashikaga Flower Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ashikaga-flower-park): Tochigi, Garden. Famous flower park featuring a 150-year-old Great Wisteria tree and spectacular seasonal illuminations, named among Japan's top three illumination spots. - [Shugakuin Imperial Villa](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shugakuin-imperial-villa): Kyoto, Garden. Built in the 1650s by retired Emperor Go-Mizunoo. Three terraced gardens using the Higashiyama mountains as borrowed scenery. Advance reservation required. - [Yoshiki-en](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yoshiki-en): Nara, Garden. A quiet Japanese garden beside the Isuien garden near Nara Park, made up of a pond garden, a moss garden and a tea-flower garden. - [Sankeien Garden](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sankeien-garden): Kanagawa, Garden. A spacious traditional Japanese garden built by silk merchant Hara Sankei, featuring 17 historic buildings relocated from across Japan including a Kyoto three-story pagoda. - [Sorakuen Garden](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sorakuen-garden): Hyogo, Garden. A municipal Japanese garden in central Kobe, home to the relocated Hassam House and known for its azaleas. - [Awaji Yumebutai](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/awaji-yumebutai): Hyogo, Garden. An architectural complex on Awaji Island designed by Tadao Ando, with the terraced Hyakudanen garden and a large greenhouse. - [Nada Kuroiwa Suisenkyo](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nada-kuroiwa-suisenkyo): Hyogo, Garden. A steep seaside slope on southern Awaji Island carpeted with around five million wild narcissus that bloom from late December to late February, one of Japan's three great wild daffodil colonies, with a rooftop deck overlooking the Kitan Strait and Nushima. Reopened in December 2023 after a three-year renovation. - [Tottori Hanakairo Flower Park](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tottori-hanakairo-flower-park): Tottori, Garden. Spread across 50 hectares at the foot of sacred Mount Daisen, Tottori Hanakairo ranks as Japan's largest flower park with large displays that change with every season. The climate-controlled Flower Dome houses exotic orchids and tropical blooms year-round, while outdoor gardens fill with tulips in spring, salvia in summer, and cosmos in autumn. On clear days, the flower-covered hillsides frame wide views of the snow-capped Daisen peak, often called the Mount Fuji of the San'in region. - [Genkyu-en](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/genkyu-en): Shiga, Garden. A Japanese pond garden northeast of Hikone Castle, built for the Ii lords and designated a national scenic beauty spot. - [Nabana no Sato](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/nabana-no-sato): Mie, Garden. Lit up each winter, Nabana no Sato hosts Japan's largest illumination festival with millions of LED lights creating large displays across its expansive grounds. By day, the botanical garden draws crowds with seasonal flowers including tulips, roses, and begonias housed in climate-controlled domes. The 200-meter tunnel of lights and annually changing main illumination themes draw visitors from across Japan. - [Ritsurin Garden](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ritsurin-garden): Kagawa, Garden. Japan's largest cultural property garden with six ponds, thirteen hills, and over a thousand sculpted pine trees. - [Kawachi Fujien](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kawachi-fujien): Fukuoka, Garden. A privately owned wisteria garden in the hills of Kitakyushu, known for two long wisteria flower tunnels and a large trellis. - [Kitagawa Monet's Garden Marmottan](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kitagawa-monet-s-garden-marmottan): Kochi, Garden. A garden in Kitagawa village designed after Claude Monet's garden at Giverny, and the only place outside France permitted to use the Monet name. - [Shikinaen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shikinaen): Okinawa, Garden. A royal villa and strolling garden on a hill in Naha, laid out in 1799 and used to host envoys of the Chinese emperor. Japanese garden planning, a Chinese-style pavilion and stone bridges, and red-tiled Ryukyu roofs all sit round one pond. Destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt by 1996, it is one of the nine parts of the Gusuku Sites World Heritage property. Closed on Wednesdays. - [Hama-rikyu Gardens](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hama-rikyu-gardens): Tokyo, Garden. A former shogunal villa on Tokyo Bay whose main pond still fills and drains with the tide, the only Edo-period tidal pond left in Tokyo. Admission is 300 yen, and the gates close at 17:00. Page 2 of 3. 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