Garden · Higashi-Mukojima

Mukojima Hyakkaen Garden 向島百花園

A 1804 garden created by an antique dealer and his poet friends as a "garden of a hundred flowers", wild, grassy and poetic rather than manicured, with a tunnel of bush clover every September.

About

Unlike the great daimyo gardens, Mukojima Hyakkaen was made by a townsman: antique dealer Sahara Kiku-u, who in 1804 planted plum trees here and invited Edo's literati to donate plants and compose poems. The result is a garden of seasonal wildflowers and herbs mentioned in classical poetry, Japanese plums in February, irises and hydrangea in early summer, and above all the hagi (bush clover) tunnel, an arching walkway smothered in pink blossom in mid-to-late September. Stone monuments engraved with haiku are scattered through the beds, and a small teahouse sells amazake and dango. It is a National Place of Scenic Beauty and Historic Site, yet it remains a neighbourhood garden where locals come with sketchbooks and cameras; from several corners you see the Skytree peeking over the trees.

Highlights

• Hagi (bush clover) tunnel that blooms mid-to-late September
• Seven Herbs of Autumn and spring plum grove planted after classical poetry
• Around 30 stone poetry monuments among the flower beds
• Teahouse serving dango and amazake
• Skytree views over the garden walls

Tips

• Time a visit for the hagi festival (mid–late September) or the plum festival (February–March).
• Moon-viewing evenings are held around the harvest moon with extended hours.
• Combine with Sumida's Hatonomachi shotengai and Mukojima's Chomeiji sakuramochi on the way back toward Asakusa.
• It is small (about 30–45 min) but the plantings change completely by season, locals come back monthly.

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Nearby

• UotokuSushi & Seafood · 230 m away
• Tobu MuseumMuseum · 390 m away
• Hatonomachi-dori Shopping StreetPhoto Spot · 540 m away
• Shirahige BridgeBridge · 630 m away
• Kyojima BackstreetsLocal Secret · 760 m away
• Chomeiji Sakuramochi YamamotoyaLocal Secret · 890 m away
• Higashi Shirahige ParkPark · 990 m away
• Skytree from Sakura-bashiPhoto Spot · 1.1 km away