Kairaku-en (偕楽園?) (English: "A park to be enjoyed together") is a Japanese garden Japanese gardens , that is, gardens in traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks such as Buddhist temples and old castles located in Mito Mito is the capital of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan and has a central location, moderately offset towards the coast in that prefecture. As of 2005, the city has an estimated population of 263,748 and a total area is 217.45 km², giving a density of 1,212.91 persons per km². Mito natto is the city's culinary speciality and is well-known across Japan, Ibaraki Ibaraki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region on Honshū island. The capital is Mito, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters which make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is. Along with Kenroku-en and Koraku-en, it is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan The Three Great Gardens of Japan , also known as "the three most famous gardens in Japan" are considered to include Kenroku-en in Kanazawa, Koraku-en in Okayama and Kairaku-en in Mito. Kairakuen was built relatively recently in the year 1841 by the local lord Tokugawa Nariaki Tokugawa Nariaki was a prominent Japanese daimyo who ruled the Mito domain (now Ibaraki prefecture) and contributed to the rise of nationalism and the Meiji restoration. Unlike Japan's other two great landscape gardens Kenrokuen and Kōrakuen, Kairakuen served not only for the enjoyment of the ruling lord, but was open to the public. While worth a visit throughout the year, Kairakuen is most attractive during the plum blossom Prunus mume, commonly known as ume or Japanese apricot, or Chinese plum is a species of Asian plum in the family Rosaceae. The flower, long a beloved subject in the traditional painting of East Asia and Vietnam, is usually translated as plum blossom season, which usually takes place in late February and March. Besides the plum A plum or gage is a stone fruit tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera in the shoots having a terminal bud and the side buds solitary (not clustered), the flowers being grouped 1-5 together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side, and a smooth stone tree forest, where one hundred different plum tree varieties with white, pink and red blossoms Blossom is a term given to the flowers of stone fruit trees and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely but for a short period of time in the spring. Blossoms are either pink or white depending on the species or variety. Nectarine blossoms, peach blossoms, most cherry blossoms, and some almond blossoms are usually pink are planted, Kairakuen also features a bamboo Bamboo listen are a group of perennial evergreen (except for certain temperate species) plants in the true grass family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family grove, cedar Cedar is a genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae. They share a very similar cone structure with the Firs (Abies) and were traditionally thought to be most closely related to them, but molecular evidence supports a basal position in the family. They are native to the mountains of the western Himalaya and the Mediterranean region, woods and the Kobuntei, a traditional Japanese style building. While entry to the park is free, entry into the Kobuntei costs 190 yen.
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Old front gate. |
Bamboo grove and cedar woods. |
Koubuntei. |
Plum tree forest. |
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South garden. |
Kairaku-en Park and Koubuntei. |
Senba Lake. |
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