Best parks and nature in Shinjuku (JP)

Shinjuku Chuo Park is most popular around 2 PM on Sundays. Visitors usually stay up to 2 hours here. It's most quiet on Mondays.

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Koishikawa Korakuen Garden is most popular around 2 PM on Saturdays. Visitors usually stay up to 3 hours here. It's most quiet on Wednesdays.

早春を楽しむ”梅まつり”開催！「梅香る庭園へ」 開催日時：令和７年２月１日（土）～３月２日（日）9時～17時（最終入園は16時30分） 詳細はこちら：https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/koishikawakorakuen/news/2025/park_info.html 水戸徳川家の上屋敷内の庭で、初代藩主・頼房が着手、二代・光圀が完成させました。回遊式築山泉水庭園で、随所に中国的趣向を凝らしています。「後楽園」の名は、『岳陽楼記』の中にある「天下の憂いに先じて憂い、天下の楽しみに後れて楽しむ」から付けられました。 The garden was in residence of the Mito Tokugawa family. The primary lord Yorifusa started to build it, and the second lord Mitsukuni completed the construction.

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Ikebukuro Nishi-guchi Park is most popular around 4 PM on Saturdays. Visitors usually stay up to 1 hour here. It's most quiet on Mondays.

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Koishikawa Botanical Garden is most popular around 1 PM on Saturdays. Visitors usually stay up to 1.5 hours here. It's most quiet on Fridays.

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Chidorigafuchi Park is most popular around 8 AM on Fridays. Visitors usually stay up to 45 min here. It's most quiet on Sundays.

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Higo-Hosokawa Garden is most popular around 1 PM on Sundays. Visitors usually stay up to 2 hours here. It's most quiet on Tuesdays.

・休園日は12月28日~1月4日 江戸時代末期に、熊本藩主・細川家の 下屋敷だった場所にあり、台地の起伏 を活かし、立体的眺望を持った見事な 池泉回遊式庭園です。 大正時代に建 てられ、細川家の学問所として使われた 「松聲閣」は、歴史性を生かして改修さ れ、2016年にリニューアル。 建物・庭園とも 無料で見学できます。 This is the place where a second house of the Kumamoto domain lord, the Hosokawa family in the late Edo period was. It is a stunning pond garden with small artificial hills in the go around style, which you can enjoy the stereoscopic view. It was created by using the relief of the plateau fully.

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