Mukojima Hyakka-en Garden

The garden is said to be the only surviving flower garden from the Edo Period. An entrance fee of 150 yen is charged.

Apart from plum trees there are a lot of other flowers which bloom across all four seasons. One more view of the blossoms, which is partly still in the buds stage, just set to bloom very soon. The blossoms can be enjoyed until around the 10th of March every year.

There is a Japanese style tatami room inside the park, which can be reserved by paying a special entrance fee of 3,700 yen. From the outside I could see some people in the room, wearing kimono and attending a tea ceremony, a very traditional Japanese experience.

Walking towards the garden through the quiet lanes just one kilometer away from Asakusa, the Ume-Matsuri (Plum Festival) banners in Japanese were quite prominently displayed.

Tokyo Skytree in the backdrop from Mukojima Hyakka-en. I guess I should come back for a twilight scene on a clear blue sky day.

I was surprised to see this stone pillar of Nihonbashi; the characters on the stone are supposedly of the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobu.

The flower tunnel had no flowers in February. This bamboo tunnel is best viewed in September with various flower creepers which decorate the long winding path.