{"id":3716,"date":"2017-05-26T17:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japan-4seasons.com\/wp2\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2017-06-14T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T05:20:39","slug":"%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e5%ba%ad%e5%9c%92%e3%81%ae%e6%95%a3%e7%ad%96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japan-4seasons.com\/en\/osaka\/3716.html","title":{"rendered":"Strolling in a Japanese Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is TAIKO-EN<\/a>, which is a restaurant facility located in the\u00a0northwest part of Osaka City. They have a wonderful Japanese garden. We strolled around the garden.<\/p>\n

This is the entrance gate.<\/p>\n

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The garden is called “Tsukiyama-shiki Kaiyu-teien” (Japanese style stroll garden) having a pond in the center of the garden and a walkway around the pond.<\/p>\n

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We started here.<\/p>\n

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There were\u00a0big trees in the garden, and birds were perching on tree branches.<\/p>\n

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The building on the right is a small wedding chapel. We can easily imagine the stone marker on the left being used as a guidepost in the Edo period.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0water reservoir is made by hollowing out a stone. There were small stones and coins in the reservoir.<\/p>\n

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We found Japanese houses at some points while we were walking.<\/p>\n

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There was a place where several small stone Buddhist statues and reliefs were gathered.<\/p>\n

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Also, there were\u00a0big natural garden stones and cut garden stones.<\/p>\n

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The temperature was about 25 to\u00a026 degrees Celsius, but we didn’t sweat at all because of the\u00a0low humidity. The wind, passing through the trees, was very comfortable.<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0small Shinto shrine.<\/p>\n

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This is a stone bridge over the pond, which is made of one stone.<\/p>\n

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In the pond, there were\u00a0some summer flowers, skunk cabbage and water lilies, blooming.<\/p>\n

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This is another stone bridge.<\/p>\n

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There was a stone tower. This rectangular tower had 4 Buddhist reliefs and perhaps letters from a\u00a0sutra on both sides of each Buddhist relief on the lower\u00a0part.<\/p>\n

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Then, we returned to the starting point.<\/p>\n

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The garden was wonderful and we had a wonderful stroll.
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