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Tokyo Sights

Chinzan-Sō

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Good for: Romance, gardens, beauty, Weddings, Kimono

  • Address
    • 10-8,Sekiguchi 2-chome Bunkyo-ku Takadanobaba area
  • Transport
    • JR Yūrakuchō Line to Edogawa-bashi (exit 1a), Toden Arakawa Line to Waseda
  • Website
  • Phone
    • 03 3943 1111
  • Price
    • admission free
  • Hours
    • 10am-9.30pm

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Lonely Planet review for Chinzan-Sō

This lovely, hilly 66,000-sq-metre strolling garden was part of the estate of a Meiji-era politician and statesman, and lining its many pathways are a number of antiquities transported from all over Japan. Most notable is a 16.7m three-storey pagoda, estimated at nearly a millennium old, which was transported from the Hiroshima area, as well as lanterns, monuments and torii. We don’t particularly love the contemporary construction of hotels and wedding halls around it, but all that is forgotten in the garden’s lovely soba shop Mucha-an.

 

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    A garden of earthly delights

    mizsharp recommends this,

    If you have a yen for romance you will find it in Chinzan-So’s well-groomed garden … spilling out of those contemporary wedding halls are happily nervous nearly-marrieds (photography sessions being held before the ceremony). A mother-of-the-bride-to-be gracefully kneels to adjust the heavy folds of her daughter’s hand embroidered kimono. A photographer’s hands dance as he orchestrates the largest of families into harmonious symmetry beside the lake.

    Good for: Romance, gardens, beauty, Weddings, Kimono, Pagoda

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