The garden uses the southeast plateau of Mt. Asuka and a slope that is part of the southern plateau. The construction started in 1917 (the Taisho Era) and it took two years to complete the stroll garden with a path on the slope at the bottom of the plateau and the lowland. It is considered to be a typical garden in modern Tokyo as it maximizes the natural geography of Tokyo such as plateau, slope and lowland.
cultural property : historic sites and places of scenic beauty as natural monuments
type : places of scenic beauty
1-27-39 Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tōkyō-to 114-0024
Tel：03-3910-0394
Home page : https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/kyu-furukawa/index.html
This is a garden created by Furukawa Toranosuke in the Taisho Era. It is located in the southeast of Mt. Asuka which is in the eastern edge of the Musashino Plateau and it skillfully uses the plateau, the slope in the south and the lowland in the garden. There is a Western-style formal garden with a European-style main building on the plateau in the north of the premises. A stroll garden is landscaped on the slope of the plateau and the lowland in the south. There are a tearoom and its tea garden in the east of the premises, thus, there are 3 elements in this garden, namely a Western garden, Japanese garden and tea garden.
The Western garden and the main building were designed by Josiah Conder and constructed in 1917. Ogawa Jihei VII (also known as Ueji) of Kyoto designed the Japanese garden. It was designed to maximize characteristic geographies of Tokyo and exhibits an amazing harmony of Japanese and Western styles by incorporating traditional methods and modern techniques. This is a valuable garden which retains original features created in the modern Tokyo.