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Built
in the 17th century, the vast and splendid Hamarikyu-en
garden offers you a retreat into an ambience of
tranquility where you can forget the passage of
time in the hectic Tokyo metropolis. A typical Japanese
garden designed for a daimyo feudal lord in the
Edo period, the garden features a tidal pond, infused
with seawater in order to change flavors along the
pond by flood changes from time to time, and two
wild-duck hunting sites for the lord's pleasure. |
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This
garden is roughly divided into two areas: the south
garden, the center of which is the Daimyo garden,
and the north garden that had been developed after
the Meiji period. After the Meiji Restoration, the
garden became the detached palace of royal families
and officially named Hamarikyu, literally meaning
a detached palace on the coast. Surrounded currently
by high-rise buildings of the Shiodome business
area, the contrast between the old and the new is
superb. |
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