This list of Japanese gardens in the United States contains gardens, museums, institutions and other organizations which features gardens designed and created in traditional Japanese style that are open to the public.
| Name | Town/City | State | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 12 acres, established in 1978 | ||
| Washington | 4 acres | ||
| New Mexico | Includes the four-acre Sasebo Japanese Garden designed by Toru Tanaka, opened in 2007 | ||
| Maine | 2.3 acres, styled after a Japanese stroll garden | ||
| Georgia | Includes a small Japanese garden begun in Piedmont Park in the 1960s before the Atlanta Botanical Garden was chartered | ||
| Bainbridge Public Library | Washington | Website, Japanese garden on the west side of the library designed in 1998[1] | |
| Washington | Yao Gardens is a Japanese-style stroll garden | ||
| Alabama | Includes the Asian-American Garden with elements of Japanese and Chinese gardens[2] | ||
| Alabama | Includes the 7.5 acre Japanese Gardens with a tea garden, the karesansui garden, hill and stream garden, small stroll garden | ||
| Bainbridge Island | Washington | 150-acre (0.6 km2) forest garden with a formal Japanese garden and Japanese guesthouse | |
| Oklahoma | Includes a Japanese dry garden or kara san sei, and a Japanese tea garden | ||
| New York | Includes the 3-acre Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden (opened in 1915) and the C. V. Starr Bonsai Museum | ||
| Maryland | Includes a Gude Garden and a teahouse | ||
| Hawaii | Located in Valley of the Temples Memorial Park, non-denominational shrine that is a replica of a 900-year-old Buddhist temple at Uji, landscaped gardens, established in 1968 | ||
| California | 1.5 acre sculpture garden designed by Isamu Noguchi, part of the upscale-luxury goods shopping center[3] [4] | ||
| Central Washington University Japanese Garden | Washington | Designed by Masa Mizuno, located next to the Student Union Center[5] | |
| Alabama | Website, designed by Takeo Uesugi[6] [7] | ||
| Tennessee | 55-acre botanical garden includes the Shomu-en, the pine-mist garden | ||
| Illinois | Includes the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden, a 17-acre lakeside garden with three islands, also a collection of nearly 200 bonsai | ||
| Ohio | Includes a Japanese garden designed by David Slawson, was a gift of Ikebana International, Chapter 20, in 1975[8] | ||
| Minnesota | The Marjorie McNeely Conservatory includes the Charlotte Partridge Ordway Japanese Garden and a bonsai collection | ||
| Culver City Julian Dixon Library Kaizuka Meditation Garden | California | Website | |
| Ohio | The Japanese Garden features a meditation house, pond and rock garden and was designed in 1963 by Dr. Makoto Nakamura.[9] | ||
| New York | Located by the Buffalo History Museum, 6-acre friendship garden with Kanazawa | ||
| Colorado | The Japanese Garden is called Shofu-en—the Garden of Wind and Pines,[10] and was designed by Koichi Kawana[11] in collaboration with Kai Kwahara.[12] | ||
| California | Includes a Japanese teahouse and a Japanese-style garden designed by Whitney Smith and built in 1966. | ||
| Iowa | Includes a Japanese garden designed by Hoichi Kurisu, covers 14 acres, including a 4-1/2 acre lake. This is a chisen kaiyu-shiki or “wet strolling garden.” | ||
| New Jersey | The Japanese section includes a small teahouse, a wood bridge, fuji, azaleas, primrose, crocus, and a karesansui dry garden. | ||
| California | 1.3 acres on the campus of California State University, Long Beach | ||
| Hawaii | Features a "Seien" (Serene Garden), a Japanese garden designed by Kenzo Ogata of Tokyo, and located behind Jefferson Hall, and a teahouse | ||
| Illinois | Features a one-acre garden installed in 1910, designed by Taro Otsuka, includes a pond, waterfall, moon bridge, oversized lantern and teahouse. | ||
| Michigan | Includes a Japanese "dry" garden designed by Ben Oki (1979), Curator of Bonsai at the Huntington Botanical Gardens | ||
| Texas | 7.5-acre garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, built in 1973 | ||
| Oregon | Website, includes a 1.3-acre garden dedicated to as a memorial to Japanese Americans interned during World War II and to the Japanese Americans who for the U.S. in WWII | ||
| Ohio | Includes a bonsai display | ||
| New Hampshire | Summer estate of Alvan T. Fuller, includes a Japanese garden with koi pond | ||
| South Carolina | Almost 2 acres, Japanese and Asian elements, includes a Hei-Sei-Ji temple that was originally standing in Nagoya | ||
| California | The Japanese Garden includes a Shinto shrine and koi pond. | ||
| Garden of Serenity | Pennsylvania | Outside the Bethlehem Area Public Library, designed by Yoshinaga Sakon in 1971, gift from the twin city of Tondabayashi, includes raked sands, bonsai and topiary bushes, and a tea house.[13] [14] | |
| Illinois | A peace garden originally built in 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition | ||
| Gardena Mayme Dear Library Japanese Garden | California | Website, opened in 1964, designed by Takuma Tono | |
| Gardens of the World | California | Website, the Japanese garden features an authentic Japanese Pagoda and koi pond | |
| Arkansas | Features the 4-acre Garden of the Pine Wind, designed by David Slawson, includes 300 varieties of Asian ornamental plants, a 'Full Moon Bridge', three cascades, a 12-foot waterfall, two springs, four pools and a pond. | ||
| California | Website, 1.3 acres (0.53 ha) Japanese garden built in 2003 and designed by Takeo Uesugi, adjacent to the CLA Building and the W.K. Kellogg Commemorative Rose Garden[15] | ||
| California | 18-acre Japanese estate, retreat and gardens, includes a bamboo garden, Zen garden, strolling garden, tea houses, and the Cultural Exchange Center, which is an authentic reproduction of a 19th-century Kyoto tea merchant's house and shop. | ||
| New York | About 7 acres, exhibits of Eastern and Western art and programs | ||
| California | Currently not open to the public, completed in 1961, emphasizes water, stones, and evergreen plants. | ||
| Pennsylvania | Includes the Denis Asian Garden and Teaf Memorial Zen-style Garden adjoining the Dining Center | ||
| California | Designed by Kimio Kimura, over 3 acres, includes a koi pond, teahouse and viewing pavilions set along a ravine | ||
| Florida | Features the James J. Smith Bonsai Gallery with 100 bonsai trees, and a Japanese garden designed by Mollie Crimmins in the 1960s | ||
| Texas | The Japanese Garden was designed by Ken Nakajima in 1992, includes a teahouse, waterfalls, bridges, and stone paths that wander among crepe myrtles, azaleas, Japanese maples, dogwoods and cherry trees. | ||
| Pennsylvania | Includes a Japanese garden with rare giant sequoias, Dawn Redwood trees, Japanese maples and more. | ||
| D.C. | Includes a Japanese garden designed by landscape architect Shogo Myaida, features a stream and pond, combines native and Japanese plants including Japanese pines, Colorado blue spruce, maples, azaleas, and false cypress. | ||
| California | The Japanese Garden features a moon bridge, a large bell, the authentic ceremonial teahouse Seifu-an (the Arbor of Pure Breeze), a fully furnished Japanese house, koi-filled ponds, the Zen Garden, and the bonsai collections with hundreds of trees. | ||
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| New York | 150-acre garden, merges the essence of Modernist and Romantic ideas with traditional Chinese and Japanese garden design | ||
| Utah | Includes a Japanese garden | ||
| Washington D.C. | D.C. | Website, authentic Japanese tea house and replica of the rock garden at Ryōan-ji, open for events by the Japan Information & Culture Center | |
| California | 12 acres, located in Balboa Park, landscape designed by Takeo Uesugi, includes a bonsai collection and teahouse | ||
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| Los Angeles | California | Located in Van Nuys, public Japanese garden located on the grounds of the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area of the central San Fernando Valley, designed by Dr. Koichi Kawana and created from 1980 to 1983 | |
| Oklahoma | Opened in 1997 as a showcase of the relationship between Stillwater and Kameoka as sister cities | ||
| California | Website, designed by Nagao Sakurai, features a granite pagoda, tea house, koi pond and bamboo grove | ||
| California | 3 acres, located in Golden Gate Park, oldest public Japanese garden in the United States, designed by Makoto Hagiwara, includes ponds, a pagoda, moon bridge and a teahouse | ||
| Japanese-American Cultural and Community Center | Los Angeles | California | Website, includes the James Irvine Japanese Garden, also known as Seiryu-en or "Garden of the Clear Stream", designed by Takeo Uesugi & Associates[16] |
| North Carolina | Administered by North Carolina State University, includes a Zen garden of raked gravel and hand-crafted wooden and stone features | ||
| Minnesota | Located behind Watson Hall, opened in 1976[17] | ||
| New York | 4 acres, includes a tea house in the shoin-dzukuri style of the Ashikaga period, tea garden, stone lanterns, mosses, waterfall, pond; may be closed | ||
| Washington | 20 acres with 4.5-acre landscaped core, started in 1927 by Fujitaro Kubota | ||
| Honolulu | Hawaii | Cemetery with three-tiered Sanju Pagoda, Kinkaku-ji Temple, and Mirror Gardens | |
| Oklahoma | Gifted to the State of Oklahoma in 1984 as a symbol of friendship between Kyoto and Oklahoma. It was restored in 2022 by the Japan America Society of Oklahoma with the help of Kyoto Master Gardeners | ||
| Lakeside Park | California | Website, includes a Japanese garden, bonsai garden and Torii gate garden at the Gardens at Lake Merritt | |
| Nebraska | Planned Japanese garden | ||
| Oklahoma | Includes the Japanese Pavilion Garden with a koi pond | ||
| Virginia | Includes the Asian Valley | ||
| Hawaii | 30 acres, Edo-style Japanese gardens with bridges, koi ponds, pagodas, statues, torii, and a Japanese teahouse | ||
| Oregon | Includes a Japanese garden | ||
| Washington | Includes the Nishinomiya Tsutakawa Japanese Garden designed in 1967 by Nagao Sakurai | ||
| Georgia | Includes the Abendroth Japanese Garden with a tea house and koi | ||
| Richmond | Virginia | Features a koi pond, large waterfall, torii gate, rock gardens | |
| Tennessee | Includes the Japanese Garden of Tranquility (1965, 1989), designed by Dr. P. T. Tono, Tokyo; redesigned by Dr. Koichi Kawana | ||
| Florida | Includes a Japanese garden | ||
| Micke Grove Regional Park Japanese Garden | California | Website, designed by Nagao Sakurai and dedicated in 1965 | |
| Minnesota | “Seisui Tei” or Garden of Pure Water reflects a style of Japanese Garden from the Edo Period, designed by Koichi Kawana in 1985, maintained under the direction of Dr. David Slawson[18] | ||
| Florida | Includes two museum buildings, the Roji-en Japanese Gardens: Garden of the Drops of Dew and a bonsai garden | ||
| Muscatine Art Center Japanese Garden | Muscatine | Iowa | Small Japanese-style garden built around 1930 for Laura Musser McColm of Muscatine |
| Massachusetts | Operated by The Trustees of Reservations on Martha's Vineyard | ||
| Texas | Includes the Japanese Garden of Peace, established in 1976[19] | ||
| Louisiana | Includes the Yakumo Nihon Teien Japanese Garden | ||
| New York | Includes a 2.5-acre Japanese rock garden | ||
| Virginia | The Japanese Garden (1962) was created to honor Norfolk's sister city, Moji, Japan, and rededicated in 1962 to Kitakyushu, formerly Moji; redesigned and refurbished in 1995.[20] | ||
| Normandale Community College Japanese Garden | Minnesota | 2 acres[21] | |
| Pennsylvania | Includes the Japanese Courtyard Garden (1991) with bonsai, designed by Hoichi Kurisu | ||
| Pine Bluff Japanese Garden | Arkansas | Located at the Pine Bluff Civic Center, was a gift from Pine Bluff's Sister City, Iwai City, Japan[22] | |
| Washington | The Japanese garden features a pagoda built in 1914 as a streetcar station | ||
| Oregon | 5.5 acres, features the Strolling Pond Garden, Natural Garden, Sand and Stone Garden, Flat Garden and Tea Garden | ||
| Arizona | 3.5 acre Japanese stroll garden with a tea garden and tea house | ||
| Wisconsin | Built in 1989, the Japanese garden includes gates, fences, a dry gravel sea, stones, a waterfall, stream, Japanese lanterns and other elements. | ||
| Texas | Includes Kumamoto En Japanese Garden, built in 1989, patterned after the Suizenji Park in Kumamoto | ||
| San Antonio | Texas | 11 acres, located in Brackenridge Park, includes shaded walkways, stone bridges, a 60-foot waterfall and ponds filled with koi | |
| San Francisco | California | Includes a Japanese-design moon-viewing garden | |
| San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin | California | Website, located in Japantown, temple's garden includes a pagoda, a small bridge and topiaried plants[23] | |
| San Jose Japanese Friendship Garden | California | Website, located in Kelley Park, temple's garden design was donated to San Jose from city of Okayama using Korakuen as an inspiration and built by volunteers from the Japanese American community in 1957–1960. The 6 acre garden includes a very large koi pond, Teahouse available for rent, many old pagodas, reflection lantern, zig-zag bridge, cherry blossom tree section, waterfall, curved walkways, a moon bridge, many bridges, artistic rocks and topiaried plants | |
| California | Includes an authentic Japanese teahouse and demonstration garden[24] | ||
| Grove | Oklahoma | Designed by Dr. Leonard Miller | |
| Seattle | Washington | 3.5 acres, designed by Kiyoshi Inoshita and Juki Iida, completed in 1959 | |
| Missouri | 14-acre Japanese strolling garden, designed by Dr. Koichi Kawana | ||
| California | Includes a Japanese garden | ||
| California | Designed in 1978 by Haruo Yamashiro, includes a tea house, located in the courtyard of the Social and Behavioral Sciences building[25] | ||
| California | Located in Woodward Park, 5-acre Japanese stroll garden opened in 1981 and designed by Paul Saito, includes a teahouse | ||
| Shiojiri Niwa | Indiana | Website, 1.3-acre Japanese strolling garden in Merrifield Park | |
| Pennsylvania | 17th century-style Japanese house and 1.2-acre garden | ||
| Oregon | Includes a Japanese-style garden built around a 100-foot lily pond | ||
| Shoto-Teien Japanese Gardens | South Dakota | Website part of Terrace Park[26] [27] | |
| Oklahoma | |||
| New Jersey | Part of Georgian Court University, the Japanese Garden was designed by Takeo Shiota[28] | ||
| Smith College Botanic Garden and Lyman Plant House | Massachusetts | Website, includes a Japanese garden | |
| New York | The Japanese garden features miniature mountainous Japanese landscape, with torii gates and a tea house. | ||
| Missouri | Website, includes the 7.5-acre Mizumoto Japanese Stroll Garden with a koi lake, moon bridge, meditation garden, and tea house | ||
| Ohio | Includes a Japanese garden designed in 1916 by T.R. Otsuka and Warren Manning | ||
| Massachusetts | Includes an Asian garden and Japanese tea house | ||
| California | 1.45-acre (0.59 ha) hill and pond strolling garden, the "chisen kaiyu shiki" form | ||
| Pennsylvania | Currently closed. | ||
| Massachusetts | Contemplative indoor Japanese garden[29] | ||
| Japanese Cultural Center, Tea House, and Gardens of Saginaw | Michigan | Website, 3 acres | |
| Torrance Cultural Arts Center | California | Website, includes the Pine Wind Garden (Sho Fu En) | |
| Washington D.C. | D.C. | Includes the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum | |
| California | The Asian Collection area includes a Japanese Pool with traditional garden items[30] | ||
| Illinois | Includes a Japanese arts teaching facility, Japan House, with tea garden (2002), dry or Zen garden (2003). The gardens are free, and open dawn to dusk, but the walled tea garden is closed during icy weather.[31] | ||
| Wa-Shin-An Japanese Tea House and Meditation Garden | Massachusetts | Website, located on the top floor of Eliot House at Mount Holyoke College | |
| South Carolina | Features a temple, torri gate, moon bridge and tea house | ||
| Wesleyan University Japanese Garden | Connecticut | Website, Shôyôan Garden at the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies | |
| Washington | 0.74 acres | ||
| Kentucky | 6 acres, strolling garden | ||
| Massachusetts | Website, a contemplative garden in the Japanese style located between Webster Hall and Kirby Theater, designed by Shinichiro Abe of Zen Associates | ||
| Texas | Includes the 3-acre Isamu Taniguchi Japanese Garden[32] | ||