Kairaku-en Garden

Kairaku-en is a Japanese park in Japan in the town of Mito. Translated from Japanese, the name of the park sounds like "a park for shared enjoyment." Tokugawa Nariaki laid out this garden in 1841 for himself and his guests. During the Second World War, the garden was almost completely destroyed by bombers, but was restored in 1958.

Kairaku-en Garden is one of the 3 most famous and beautiful parks in Japan, along with Koraku-en and Kenroku-en. Tokugawa was very fond of plums, so there is a large grove of plums in the garden. It is best to visit the grove in February and March, when the plum blossoms show their flowers. In general, the Kairaku-en garden has about a hundred varieties of trees, which, with their blooming, drive the imagination of the garden guests crazy. From February 20 to March 31, the Mito Ume Matsuri Festival is held, during which tea ceremonies are held for guests, harps are played, and folk songs are sung.

The main idea of the Kairaku-en garden is the reproduction of Chinese and Japanese landscapes, in the form of ponds, boulders, plants, making artificial embankments. Similarly, you can walk past Mount Fujiyama, West Lake, Kiyomizu-dera Temple. The park is also beautiful during the autumn leaf fall in November.

You can visit the Kairaku-en Garden for free, but you will have to pay only for visiting the Kobuntei House, where the owners of the garden used to rest. In addition to the plum grove, there is a grove of cedars and bamboos in the garden.