The Tokyo garden museum

A Tokyo garden museum was the one to have exhibited just as it is the building which was built by the Showa 8(1933) year as Asakanomiya mansion (Asakanomiya highness : the prince of 8th of Kuni court noble, the Imperial Highness : the archduchess of 8th of the Emperor Meiji) to the Showa 58(1983) year as the museum and after the war, it was used as the guesthouse at Minister for Foreign Affairs and the prime minister official residence and in the country and so on.
The building tells art deco form which swept over decorative art in Europe from the 1920s to the 1930s in the present, the French design and the one which the inner decorations, too, were imported from the foreign countries such as France into is used. The calmed space which the building with history as the oasis in the Metropolitan area and the garden harmonized with is spreading.

In the garden museum

Old Asakanomiya mansion of art deco style with history

The garden in the open Western countries

Some monuments are placed.

There is a Japanese garden, too.

There is a teahouse, too.

The Japanese apricot bloomed.

Tokyo garden museum home page


	The front entrance