The hilltop pagoda
Above the pond.
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A traditional Japanese garden in south Yokohama, opened in 1906, whose name means «Three Creeks Garden». It was designed and built by the silk merchant Tomitaro Hara, known as Sankei. Most of its buildings are historic structures Hara bought across Japan and moved to the garden, from Tokyo, Kyoto, Kamakura and Gifu and Wakayama prefectures, among them teahouses, halls and a three-storey pagoda built in Kyoto in 1457 and moved to the garden's hill in 1914; ten are Important Cultural Properties of Japan. The garden covers about 175,000 square metres of ponds, streams and rolling paths laid out by Hara himself, with stone and wooden bridges and cherries, plums, maples and flowers for every season. Badly damaged in the Second World War, it was given to the City of Yokohama in 1953 and restored almost to its pre-war state. Tickets are about 900 yen, and it opens 9:00-17:00, per visitor guides. Buses run from Yokohama and Sakuragichō stations.
Above the pond.
Moved from across Japan.
And rolling paths.
Honmoku, Naka ward, south Yokohama
Most of its buildings are historic structures its founder moved from across Japan, including a three-storey pagoda and teahouses, ten of them Important Cultural Properties.