A tidal strolling garden created around 1690 using the Sumida River's ebb and flow — the Yasuda zaibatsu estate donated to Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake and free to the public ever since
創建
1690 年
種別
史跡
Access
5 min walk from JR Ryogoku Station
2-3-25 Yokoami, Sumida-ku, Tokyo
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Historic Site
Founded 1690
336 years
概要
A tidal strolling garden created by Honjo Munestake during the Genroku era, called the "Former Yasuda Garden" because it came into the possession of Yasuda Zenjiro of the Yasuda zaibatsu during the Meiji period. Donated to the City of Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake, it is now a free public park of Sumida-ku. Features a water landscape making use of the tidal ebb and flow of the Sumida Rive…
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由緒
The history of the Former Yasuda Garden dates to around 1690, when Honjo Munestake, lord of the Hitachi-Fuchu domain, is said to have created a tidal strolling garden on this site along the Sumida River. The garden centered on a tidal pond whose water level naturally rose and fell with the ebb and f…