The Fujita Memorial Garden (藤田記念庭園) is a beautiful Japanese garden in Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, originally built in 1919 as a villa for a Japanese businessman named Kenichi Fujita and acquired by Hirosaki City after his death as part of the city’s 100th anniversary celebration.
The upland area is a Japanese garden with Mt. Iwaki as a borrowed landscape, and is lined with a two-story wooden Western-style building designated as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, a one-story wooden Japanese-style building with a tea ceremony room and a Japanese-style room, and an archaeological museum.
The lowland area is a circular garden centering on a pond, where visitors can enjoy the seasonal changes in nature, including the pond viewed from the tea house, irises, azaleas, waterfalls, and eight bridges.
Getting there
From Hirosaki Station to Fujita Memorial Japanese Garden:
| Bus | Hirosaki Station ↓ Bus Number 350 ↓ 11 minutes (8 stops) Shiyakusho-Mae ↓ Walk about 2 minutes ↓ Fujita Memorial Japanese Garden |
Details
| Hours | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM |
| Admission | Adults: 320 yen Elementary school and junior high school students: 100 yen |
| Phone | +81 172-37-5525 |
| Address | 8-1 Kamishiroganecho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8357 |
| Resources | http://www.hirosakipark.or.jp/hujita/english.html |
