Shukkeien Garden

Origins of the Garden

In 1619, Asano Nagakira became the lord of Aki say together with he began ruling every bit the Daimyo from Hiroshima Castle. Despite ruling all of modern Hiroshima Prefecture together with more, his villa lacked a garden worthy of a prominent ruler of Japan. As a result, a yr later, his principal servant together with famous master copy of the tea ceremony, Ueda Soko, started structure of the Diamyo's novel garden.
The garden is said to produce got initially been designed every bit a miniaturized landscape of Lake Xihu (West Lake) inward Hangzhou, China. But, a quick comparing of the variety of Xihu together with Shukkeien's principal pond, Takuei, shows real petty similarity. In whatever case, the garden is a circular-tour vogue that emerged inward the Muromachi Era (1336-1568).

Restoration

The gardens, similar virtually of Hiroshima, was wiped out of beingness inward 1945. The Hiroshima Board of Education at nowadays started repairs to restore the garden.
Today, to a greater extent than or less 300,000 visitors come upwards to relish the gardens each year. While it isn't considered 1 of the spill out 3 gardens inward Japan, it is worth a see if you lot produce got an extra hr or together with thence inward Hiroshima.

Tea Ceremony - 茶会

The Shukkeien Garden holds tea ceremonies all yr round. Most months produce got at to the lowest degree 1 particular tea ceremony that takes house during that month.

• January - Daifuku (大福茶会) - Bean jam stuffed rice cake tea ceremony
• February - Umemi (梅見茶会) - Plum blossom viewing tea ceremony
• March - Momomi (桃見茶会) - Peach blossom viewing tea ceremony
• April - Kanou (観桜茶会) - Cherry blossom viewing tea ceremony
• May - Chyatsumi (茶摘茶会) - Tea harvesting tea ceremony
• June - Jyoubu (じょうぶ茶会) - Good wellness tea ceremony
• June - Taue-Matsuri (田植まつり) - Rice Planting Festival
• August - Nouryou (納涼茶会) - Evening tea ceremony
• September - Keirou (敬老茶会) - Respect for elders tea ceremony
• September - Kangetsu (観月茶会) - Luna viewing tea ceremony
• November - Kikumi (菊見茶会) - Chrysanthemum viewing tea ceremony
• December - Momiji (もみじ茶会) - Japanese maple tea ceremony

Flower Viewing

This nautical chart shows the guess flowering times of the major flowers inward the garden. '<' together with '>' request the blossom is inward bloom towards the halt of the calendar month or the get-go of the month.

Getting There
The Shukkeien Gardens is straight northward of Hiroshima Castle together with a brusque 10 infinitesimal walk from Hiroshima Station. The road from betwixt the station together with the garden is good marked alongside signposts inward English linguistic communication together with Japanese.