Japan Guide
Northern Honshū
Fujita Kinen Teien
Mid-April to mid-Nov Tues– Sun 9am–5pm; ¥300), a beautiful and unusually varied Japanese garden designed in 1919 for a successful local businessman. The garden consists of three distinct sections flowing over a steep hillside. At the top, beside Fujita's elegant residence, dark pines frame the distant peak of Iwaki-san – a classic example of "borrowed scenery" – from where paths lead down, beside a tumbling waterfall and over a perfect, red-lacquer bridge, to another flat area of lawns and lakes at the bottom.