# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Shukkei-en](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shukkei-en): Hiroshima, Garden. A strolling garden begun in 1620 for the Asano lords of Hiroshima, laid out around a central pond with a stone arched bridge. The 1945 atomic bombing destroyed most of its buildings; it reopened in 1951. Entry is 350 yen.
- [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.
- [Kiyosumi Gardens](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kiyosumi-gardens): Tokyo, Garden. A Meiji-era stroll garden built by the Iwasaki family of Mitsubishi around a large pond with three islands, edged with stones their steamships brought from all over Japan. A line of stepping stones lets you walk along the water's edge, and entry is 150 yen.
- [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.
- [Kyoto Botanical Garden](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kyoto-botanical-garden): Kyoto, Garden. Opened in 1924 and billed as Japan's oldest public botanical garden: 24 hectares by the Kamo River, about 500 cherry trees and a large glass conservatory, all for 500 yen. Exit 3 of Kitayama subway station opens onto the north gate.

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