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Happo-en Garden Tokyo

View over a gate into Happo-en Garden Tokyo

A Tokyo garden worth visiting

Happo-en Garden in Tokyo was a place we were keen to visit.

I had read several articles describing Happo-en as a quiet garden of great beauty. As it was walking distance from the Teien Art Museum, we combined it with a look at the Institute for Nature Study (an area of indigenous vegetation) and easily had our day planned.

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Teien Art Museum Garden

Pruned and supported Pine iat Teien Art Museum

We were eager to see some Japanese gardens. One of the first days spent in Tokyo started at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum garden. The driveway leading in was lined with trees, Azaleas, Camellias, ferns and pruned shrubs. A verdant planting of layers and textures.

In front of the Museum the drive circled an oval bed, covered with lawn and plants manicured into low mounds. It was a stunning sight, a garden of pruned shrubs setting off this Art Deco building which was the former residence of Prince Asaka.

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Japan is unique

A cloud-pruned shrub at Onshi-Hakone Koen

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In Japan, beauty is everywhere you look. Kindness from a stranger, a small vase arrangement left in the bedroom of our Kyoto house, cloud-pruned trees and shrubs on every street.

Cloud-pruning is not wide-spread in Australia. Plants are usually high-priced, available to be kept in pots or as a garden specimen. It was overwhelming to see pruning using these methods as standard practice.  Trees, shrubs, private and public gardens, street trees.

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