Koishikawa Botanical Garden (Hakusan)

When there is "a forest" to being this much in the downtown, it is surprise.
It is to the official name that "the University of Tokyo graduate school science type graduate course attachment botanical garden" means Koishikawa Botanical Garden and it is by the affiliated organization in the University of Tokyo. By the Shogunate Government of Edo of the place that the origin was the villa of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi of Godai general It got to raise the plant which becomes medicine as Koishikawa herb garden and it is starting, and it becomes attachment facilities in Tokyo Imperial University after entering in Meiji and it is generally the one which was made to be made public as the botany institute. It is a botanical garden in the Japanese oldest and it becomes the historic site of m2 with about 160,000 pieces of area, Tokyo specification. As for in the park, because the plant where that there are a big tree which can not not do imagination, too, from the concrete jungle in the Metropolitan area and a thicket of the trees and also that they usually remain and to see aren't made is seen, it seems that it is observing a just like genuine vegetable illustrated guide. When the clamorousness in the town becomes plainly and getting to want to see green, it is the place which the heart settles in very much.

The admission ticket (330 yen) is the one of the entrance opposite side.
To be the past but the place to buy at "the cigarette shop" are interesting.

In the park is quite wide. The entrance has only one (Hakusan 2-chome).

A cycad, too, is seen (The left).
It is easy-to-understand because of the name are specified with the plate at the plant .

It has seemed "ordinary grass" but each has a name of course.

It is ··· in the sunlight through the leaves of trees.

There is a Japanese garden and the power on the woods which spread from there to the rear is highlights.

It is next to the Japanese garden "University of Tokyo general research museum Koishikawa annex".
It is the building of the completion in 1876 at the Kyuutou Kyoto medical student school main building and it is specified by the important cultural asset in the country.
The one to have been in the University of Tokyo premises at first but for 移築 to have been reconstructed in 1969
But in can be entered because it is generally made public
It doesn't accept in case of going out of the special gate at the exit once out of the botanical garden and not being.
(It doesn't accept again if not returning to the entrance at outside the road when having led out once).

It doesn't seem a downtown.

"Spermatozoon discovery 60 anniversary commemoration" It is the story of the gingko.

There is a greenhouse, too, but the general making public of a greenhouse is limited.
The seeing to 1-3 p.m. of principle every week fire and Wednesday (In the holiday, it doesn't accept).

There is a recess place (the store), too, and ice cream is eaten.

"Classification specimen Garden"
For the vegetable variety to be easy to understand
of the wig wig of about 500 kinds of high plants in East Asia
The one to be arranging (the planting) according to the classification system
It is funny easily. It is a display having to do with art and science.

"Herb garden save Garden"
This is growing about 120 kinds of medicinal plants in the herb garden times.

Because it leaves a subway station slightly
60 system Ootsuka station on the city bus-the Ueno Park Hakusan 2-chome getting-off are convenient.