Japanese Tea Garden Bridge
There is a 9 entry fee for a non resident adult.
Japanese tea garden bridge. Plants and worn aged materials are generally used by japanese garden designers to suggest an ancient and faraway natural landscape and to express the fragility of existence as. We enjoyed walking around the paths and rock walkways over bridges by the waterfalls and such. And the story board explains why it s called the japanese tea gardens but the entrance sign says chinese tea garden. Welcome to the japanese tea garden the oldest public japanese garden in the united states located inside golden gate park in san francisco california.
This is a shot of a arched bridge in the japanese tea garden in golden gate park. See more by iacchus. Japanese gardens 日本庭園 nihon teien are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas avoid artificial ornamentation and highlight the natural landscape. You even can see few japanese cranes red crowned crane in the bird cage.
The japanese tea garden in san francisco california is a popular feature of golden gate park. E stone lantern toro is a traditional japanese lantern. I think i got a good angle on it. San francisco s first japanese tea garden was originally developed by art dealer george turner marsh as part of the 1894 midwinter fair an event that brought the city by the bay into the international limelight.
Please let me know what you think. Japanese tea garden reopened on wednesday july 22 2020 with modifications to prevent the spread of covid 19. Be sure to go down to the kiln and houses where the original family of 8 lived. The garden features many interesting things such as teahouse rest houses shrine ponds yuishinzan hill bridge iris garden paddy tea field maple sakura and plum grove.
Japanese tea garden golden gate park. One thing to note is that the bridge is a symbolic bridge and even your garden does not have any water element to serve as pond or waterfall you can still install the garden bridge. Cherry blossom trees bloom throughout the garden in march and april. Comments are like crack.
Very cool stone buildings. Such a peaceful experience. This is place is full of beautiful flowers and trees.