Chōfu Garden

Beautiful Japanese garden

Chofu Garden used to be a garden of Nishi Yukinaga, a high ranking Samurai. As I visited, the season of cherry blossoms was already gone. However, fresh green was vivid, refreshing and impressive. It ...

Nice stop while touring Shimonoseki

I toured Shimonoseki for a day and Chofu Garden was the first stop. My tour had like 1.5 hours here which I feel is to much. I think an hour is more then enough time here at the Garden. It is a very p...

If you are to see autumn leaves in Shimonoseki now, this is the right place.

We visited Chofu Teien(garden) yesterday(Nov 19). Autumn leaves are beautiful now! You should not miss the beauty in the Japanese garden when the leaves are red. Some of the pictures I took may persua...

Red leaves が Meiしい

Original Text

I visited on a tour to see the autumn leaves. ３ On a vast site with 10,000 square meters, there are Shoin, Tea Room, Ogawa, and Migratory Gardens centered on the pond. There are also ２ warehouses. It was sunny and warm, and the autumn leaves of maple trees were reflected in the pond, and the deer sounded coolly, and I realized the autumn of Japan.

Shimonoseki city sightseeing

Original Text

I took a bus from JR Shimonoseki Station. In the garden, there was "Sun Wenlian" that cultivated and germinated the ancient Chinese lotus that Sun Wen gave to him when he came to Changfu. The weather was bad, but it was good in a calm atmosphere garden ○