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Hama-rikyu is a Tokyo metropolitan garden and is a
cultural heritage site for the city combining history,
culture and nature that has continued from the Edo,
Meiji and Taisho eras. The garden has had many
purposes over the years and was originally the
Tokugawa Shogun family garden and functioned as
an outer fort for the Edo period. In 1654, the fourth
shogun’s younger brother, built his detached house
called Kofu Hama-yashiki, which means ‘Kofu beach
mansion’ on land reclaimed from the sea. Later,
when the 6th shogun’s house became part of the
family residence, and it then came to be known as
Hama-goten or beach palace. Thereafter, the
creation of the several gardens and improvement to
Continued from the Edo, Top: the grounds were carried out by the following
Meiji and Taisho periods The garden looked stunning shoguns and completed as it’s almost seen today
the metropolitan garden in the autumn sun with the
is a cultural heritage site water flowing around the by the 11th shogun.
combining history and many manicured islands.
nature. After the Meiji Restoration the garden became a
Above: detached palace of the Imperial family, changing its
None of our trips would be name to Hama-rikyu. The Imperial family donated
complete without a selfie!
the garden to Tokyo City in 1945 and after
restoration work opened to the public in 1946 as
Hama-rikyu Gardens.

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