Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

Satiate your spirit with the full, rich fragrance

Photograph courtesy of the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden Management Office, Ministry of the Environment

With an area covering approx. 58 hectares and a perimeter measuring some 3.5 km, this huge park includes various different styles of gardens and grassy areas where you can enjoy scenery unique to each season. As the park grounds begin to show signs of autumn's arrival, now is the best time to see the sasanqua flowers and red spider lilies in bloom, and the air is filled with the perfume of fragrant, orange-colored olives.

5-min. walk from Shinjuku-sanchome Station on the Toei Shinjuku Line

Koishikawa Botanical Garden

A space so rich in nature, you’d never imagine it’s in the center of Tokyo

A medicinal herb garden during the Edo period, this large approx. 160,000m² botanical garden is home to some 4,000 or so plant varieties, enabling visitors to enjoy a variety of flowers with the changing seasons. With the autumn season beginning in earnest, the garden’s fragrant, orange-colored olive blossoms, sasanqua flowers, and Formosa toad-lilies are blooming, and you can also experience the therapeutic forest atmosphere as you take a stroll through the undulating park grounds.

10-min. walk from Hakusan Station on the Toei Mita Line

Asukayama Park

Soak up the sunlight flickering through the trees

A famous cherry-blossom site since the Edo period, Asukayama Park is a park where you can enjoy lush green tree foliage at this time of year before the leaves turn autumnal colors. With the residual heat of summer finally fading, time flows leisurely in the park as the sunlight flickers through the trees and the autumn breeze feels fresh on your skin.

Right near Asukayama Stop on the Tokyo Sakura Tram (Toden Arakawa Line)

Toneri Park

Flowers breathing amongst verdant greenery

Photograph courtesy of the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association

Boasting some of the largest grounds of any park in Tokyo, Toneri Park provides a variety of seasonal flowers all-year-round for visitors to enjoy. The coming season is the best time for viewing the flower bed in front of the station, which features colorful dahlias and chrysanthemums surrounded by summer cypress bushes, their leaves already turning autumnal hues. Blooming brightly beneath the clear blue autumn sky, the flowers are truly a sight to see.

Right near Toneri-koen Station on the Nippori-Toneri Liner

Hama-rikyu Gardens

Feel the ocean breeze while enjoying seasonal flowers

Once the villa of the Tokugawa Shogun’s family, the park site includes a tidal pond and two duck hunting grounds and abounds with orange sulfur cosmos and pink cosmos in full bloom. Other flowers brightly coloring the gardens include cotton rosemallow, sasanqua, Nippon daisy, and Japanese silverleaf.

5-min. walk from Shiodome Station or 7-min. walk from Tsukijishijo Station on the Toei-Oedo Line

Sumida Park (Taito City side)

Enjoy autumn breezes along the riverbank

For approx. 2 km along the west bank of the Sumida River, between Azumabashi Bridge and Sakurabashi Bridge, the trees that bloomed for our enjoyment in spring are now providing suitable shade. Gazing at the boats moving up and down the Sumida River while gentle breezes caress your skin, you can feel autumn approaching.

7-min. walk from Asakusa Station on the Toei Asakusa Line