Sasebo Japanese Garden at ABQ Biopark — Attraction in Albuquerque

I have been to over 50 or so Japanese gardens and enjoy the calm/serenity they bring to your soul. This place is kind of sad & pathetic. I would describe it more as a Japanese inspired garden. I am not sure if the city has had to cut back on staffing or what, but there is a serious lack of maintenance at this garden. Furthermore, there's a whole host of other issues: over-planting, poor trimming of trees/ shrubs, weeds everywhere, and multiple water features not functioning. Some of the rock/ boulders were not placed properly and were scattered about in an artificial way. Lastly, the main waterfall feature looks like it was designed to be an amusement park ride. The rest of the botanic gardens were OK, but again there's a serious backlog on maintenance upkeep and...

It's beautiful if not a little sparse and uninformational. Being of Japanese decent, I would love to see more information shared with the public about the Zen garden, the Buddhist bell, crooked bridges, fountain, koi fish, etc... I felt that people were disrespectful regarding their surroundings because they were uninformed. I've been to many Japanese gardens in various cities and this one is very lacking in culture. It was...

Did a tour yesterday with a very nice older lady she is very informative originally saw the tour sighn and thought oh good way to kill time by the end of it I wanted her to take me into more areas of the gardens to keep going. It was very enjoyable and informative if your curious at all at what makes a Japanese garden be a Japanese garden I highly recommend u take the tour with I believe her name...