Garden · Shiodome / Tsukiji

Hama-rikyu Gardens 浜離宮恩賜庭園

A former shogun's duck-hunting and falconry estate on Tokyo Bay, where a tidal seawater pond and island teahouse sit against the glass towers of Shiodome, matcha with a skyscraper backdrop.

About

Hama-rikyu was built in the 17th century as a seaside villa for the Tokugawa shoguns, then became an imperial detached palace. Its Shioiri-no-ike pond is fed by seawater from Tokyo Bay, rising and falling with the tide, and is home to sea fish. A long cypress bridge leads to Nakajima-no-Ochaya, a rebuilt teahouse on stilts where you can sip matcha over the water while Shiodome's skyscrapers loom behind, one of Tokyo's best old-new contrasts. Elsewhere are a 300-year-old black pine, duck-hunting blinds, fields of rape blossoms in March and cosmos in autumn. Water buses run from Hama-rikyu up the Sumida River to Asakusa.

Highlights

• Tidal seawater pond, the last in central Tokyo
• Nakajima-no-Ochaya teahouse on the water with matcha and wagashi
• 300-year-old 'Sanbyakunen no Matsu' black pine
• Spring rape-blossom and autumn cosmos fields framed by skyscrapers
• Water bus pier to Asakusa and Odaiba

Tips

• Arrive or leave by Tokyo Water Bus from Asakusa, it's a scenic ~35 min cruise and you pay garden entry at the pier gate on arrival.
• The teahouse's matcha set is the essential experience; sit on the bay-side veranda.
• Combine with Tsukiji Outer Market, 10 min walk north, for lunch.

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