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Tokyo may not be known as a city with much greenery, but it has several noteworthy parks and gardens, which offer residents and visitors an opportunity to get a break from the concrete:
City Parks
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Shinjuku Gyoen
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10 minute walk east of Shinjuku Station
Admission: 200 yen
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A spacious park with wide lawns, trees and ponds. It also includes a Japanese landscape garden and French style garden. Shinjuku Gyoen is a great cherry blossom spot in spring.
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Yoyogi Koen
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5 minute walk west of Harajuku Station
Admission: Free
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A spacious Western style park with wide lawns, trees and ponds, popular among residents. Yoyogi Park is known for its autumn leaves, especially the golden leaves of the many ginko trees.
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Ueno Koen
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Next to Ueno Station
Admission: Free
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About half a dozen museums, a zoo, a Toshogu Shrine and the Shinobazu Pond are just some of Ueno Park's attractions. Ueno Park is also Tokyo's most notorious cherry blossom party spot.
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Koishikawa Botanical Garden
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5-10 minute walk from Myogadani Station
Admission: 330 yen
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Spacious botanical garden maintained by the University of Tokyo, featuring many tree and plant species, as well as a small Japanese landscape garden. Particularly nice during the cherry blossom season.
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Japanese Style Gardens
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Rikugien
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2 minute walk from Komagome Station
Admission: 300 yen
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One of the most beautiful, classic Japanese landscape gardens of Tokyo. Dating from the Edo Period, it reproduces landscape scenes from famous poems in miniature. Nice in all seasons.
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Koishikawa Korakuen
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5-10 minute walk from Iidabashi Station
Admission: 300 yen
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Beautiful Japanese landscape garden, representing famous Japanese and Chinese sceneries in miniature. It dates from the early Edo Period and is enjoyable during all seasons.
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Hama Rikyu Garden
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10 minute walk from Shinbashi Station
Admission: 300 yen
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A spacious Japanese landscape garden with former duck hunting grounds alongside Tokyo Bay. The contrast of the garden with the nearby skyscrapers of Shiodome is spectacular.
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Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden
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Next to Hamamatsucho Station
Admission: 150 yen
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A green oasis surrounded by tall buildings, the Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden is a traditional landscape garden with a pond and man made hills. It used to be part of the residence of feudal lords and later an imperial villa.
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Kiyosumi Teien
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Short walk from Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station
Admission: 150 yen
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Kiyosumi Teien is a pretty Japanese landscape garden with walking trails around a central pond. Parts of the trails lead over stones placed into the pond.
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Nature Parks and Areas
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Institute for Nature Study - Nature Reserve
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10 minute walk from Meguro Station
Admission: 300 yen
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The nature reserve of the Institute for Nature Study is one of central Tokyo's best kept secrets: 200,000 square meters of forests and marshlands that make you believe you are in a national park of Hokkaido.
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Todoroki Valley
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2 minute walk from Tokyu's Todoroki Station
Admission: Free
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Pleasant park extending for one kilometer along a small, wooded valley in the middle of residential Setagaya city ward. At one end of the park stands the atmospheric Todoroki Fudo Temple.
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Mount Takao
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Takaosanguchi Station, Keio Railways
Admission: Free
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Sacred, wooded mountain, 50 minutes by train, west of central Tokyo, but still within the boundaries of the metropolis. It offers various hiking courses, and is particularly nice in autumn.
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Mount Mitake
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Mitake Station, JR Ome Line
Admission: Free
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Part of the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park in western Tokyo. A shrine and hiking opportunities await visitors to the mountain, which can be reached in less than two hours from Shinjuku.
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Tokyo offers the widest range of accommodation of any city in Japan.
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Read more in our Tokyo Hotel Guide
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Shin-Okubo International Hotel
Opened in 2011. From 4000Yen. 5min walk from JR Shin-Okubo Sta. and Okubo Sta. Walking distance of Shinjuku downtown.
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Gate Hotel Kaminarimon
The only hotel chosen by Michelin in Asakusa, a town of history and tradition. Book early and save.
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Recommended Hotels around Tokyo - with lowest rates by selected hotel reservation websites
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Tokyo Tours
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