- Rikugi-en. One of the most beautiful gardens in Tokyo, the Rikugien offers a quiet resting and strolling place in the hectic Tokyo life.
- Rikugi-en, located in Tokyo’s northern Komagome district, is a pristine and exceptionally beautiful garden dating back to the Edo Period.
- The Rikugi-en in Komagome is one of Tokyo's most beautiful gardens. The land was given by shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi to his grand chamberlain...
- If you love Japanese gardens, we have to go to Rikugi-en. This gorgeous stroll garden features 88 real-life views from famous poems, and is artfully designed to...
- The Features Of Rikugi-en Garden. As with many strolling-type gardens of the time, this garden was designed to be an experience outside of greenery and flowers.
- We went to Komagome station and walking five minutes out of the station we arrived to Rikugi-en gardens (六義園 ,Google Maps).
- Completed around 1700, it was created for the mansion of a high-ranking samurai. dsc_0585. Rikugi-en means Garden of the Six Principles of Poetry.
- Rikugien Garden is a Tokyo metropolitan park in Bunkyō-ku. The name Rikugi comes from the idea of the six elements in waka poetry (en means garden or park).
- Built around 1700 for the 5th Tokugawa Shogun, Rikugi-en literally means “six poems garden” and reproduces in miniature 88 scenes from famous poems.