List of parks and gardens in Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan contains many parks and gardens.

Urban parks and gardens

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Rose garden in Jindai Botanical Garden

Lotus flowers in Shakujii Park

Traditional Japanese garden in Shinjuku Gyoen

Cherry blossoms in Ueno Park

Park	Location	Year of opening as a public park	Area (sq. meters)	Remarks
Arakawa Nature Park	Arakawa	1974	61,068	Largest park in Arakawa Ward
Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park	Minato	1934	67,131	Largest park in Minato Ward
Asukayama Park	Kita	1873	73,000	Largest park in Kita Ward
Chinzan-so Garden	Bunkyō	1952
Chihaya Flower Park	Toshima	1990	5,542
Chūō Park	Kita	1958	65,620
East Garden of the Imperial Palace	Chiyoda	1968	210,000
Egota-no-Mori Park	Nakano	1971	60,224	Largest park in Nakano Ward
Heiwa-no-Mori Park	Ōta	1982	99,000	Largest park wholly in Ōta Ward
Hibiya Park	Chiyoda	1903	161,636
Hikarigaoka Park	Nerima	1974	607,823	Largest park in Nerima Ward
Himonya Park	Meguro	1933	43,533
Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park	Toshima	1970	3,123
Inokashira Park	Kichijōji	1918	385,844
Itabashi Traffic Park	Itabashi	1968	7,725
Jindai Botanical Garden	Chōfu	1961	425,433
Jōhoku-Chūō Park	Itabashi and Nerima	1957	262,369
Kamezuka Koen	Minato	1945	9,183
Kansen-en Park	Shinjuku	1969	14,000
Kasai Rinkai Park	Edogawa	1989	805,861	Largest park in Edogawa Ward
Kiba Park	Kōtō	1992	238,711
Kinshi Park	Sumida	1928	56124
Kinuta Park	Setagaya	1957	391,777	Largest park in Setagaya Ward
Kitanomaru Park	Chiyoda	1969	193,297
Kiyosumi Garden	Fukagawa	1932	37,434
Koishikawa Botanical Gardens	Bunkyō	1877^[1]	161,588	Largest gardens in Bunkyō Ward
Koishikawa Korakuen Garden	Bunkyō	1938	70,847
Komaba Park	Meguro	1975	40,400
Komazawa Olympic Park	Setagaya and Meguro	1964	413,537
Kyu-Furukawa Gardens	Kita	1956	30,780
Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden	Taitō	2001	16,912
Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden	Chūō	1924	42,035
Meguro Sky Garden	Meguro	2013	75,000
Meiji Shrine Inner Garden	Shibuya		83,000
Meiji Shrine Outer Garden	Shinjuku and Minato	1926
Mejiro-no-Mori	Toshima	1997	3,201
Minami-Nagasaki Sports Park	Toshima	2013	12,226	Largest park in Toshima Ward
Miyashita Park	Shibuya	1930	10,808
Mizumoto Park	Katsushika	1965	921,539	Largest park in Tokyo's 23 wards
Mukōjima-Hyakkaen Garden	Sumida	1939	8,718
Ōkuma Garden	Shinjuku		3,000
Ōi Futō Chūō Kaihin Park	Shinagawa and Ōta	1978	454,271	Largest park in Shinagawa Ward
Rikugien Garden	Bunkyō	1938^[2]	87,809
Shakujii Park	Nerima	1959	223,785
Saigōyama Park	Meguro	1981	10,549	Largest park wholly in Meguro Ward
Shin-Edogawa Garden	Bunkyō	1961	500
Shinjuku Central Park	Shinjuku	1968	88,065
Shinjuku Gyoen	Shinjuku and Shibuya	1949	583,000	Largest park in Shinjuku Ward
Showa Memorial Park	Tachikawa	1983	165,300
Sumida Park	Sumida and Taitō	1931	107,797
Tetsugaku-dō Park	Nakano and Shinjuku	1904	52,494
Toneri Park	Adachi	1940	628,603	Largest park in Adachi Ward
Tonogayato Garden	Kokubunji	1979	21,124
Ueno Park	Taitō	1873	538,506	Largest park in Taitō Ward
Yokoamicho Park	Sumida	1930	195,780
Yoyogi Park	Shibuya	1967	541,000	Largest park in Shibuya Ward
Yumenoshima Park	Kōtō	1978	433,212	Largest park in Kōtō Ward

Note: Figures in bold are approximate values.

Flowers

Type of flower	Blooming season	Locations
Ume blossoms	February–March	Yoshino Baigo in Ome, Mukōjima-Hyakkaen Garden, Hanegi Park in Umegaoka
Cherry blossoms (sakura)	Late March – early April	Ueno Park and Shinobazu Pond, Yoyogi Park, Shinjuku Gyoen, Inokashira Park in Kichijōji, Chidorigafuchi Imperial Palace moat near the Budokan, Meguro River, Aoyama Cemetery, Sumida Park and River near Asakusa, International Christian University
Wisteria	Late April – early May	Kameido Tenjin Shrine in Kōtō Ward
Azaleas	Late April – early May	Nezu Shrine, East Garden of the Imperial Palace, Shiofune Kannon Temple in Ome
Roses	mid – late May	Jindai Botanical Garden in Chōfu
Irises	early – mid June	Meiji Shrine, Horikiri Iris Garden
Hydrangeas	June–July	Takahata Fudo Temple, Hino

National parks

Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park

There are four national parks in Tokyo Prefecture:

Chichibu Tama Kai National Park, in Nishitama and spilling over into Yamanashi and Saitama Prefectures
Meiji no Mori Takao Quasi-National Park, around Mount Takao to the south of Hachioji.
Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, which includes all of the Izu Islands.
Ogasawara National Park. As of 2006, efforts were being made to make Ogasawara National Park a UNESCO natural World Heritage Site.

Notes

↑ Year given to University of Tokyo
↑ Year donated to city government

External links

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