Tokyo's Nine Great Gardens: Rikugien & Koishikawa Korakuen 🌿

🌺🌇Though the White Dew solar term has passed, Tokyo's weather remains hot and dry. On a boring midday, I thought about visiting some lesser-known gardens to cool off and digest my meal. 🎢🍃 Both Chinese and Japanese gardens were once private gardens for the nobility, but there are still some differences between them. 🌟 Chinese gardens seem to focus more on the layout of pavilions, towers, and artificial hills and strange rocks, emphasizing the integration of architecture with hills, ponds, and plants. 🌟 Judging from these two Tokyo gardens, they focus more on the careful arrangement of artificial hills, ponds, and flowers and trees; the meticulously trimmed lawns, the dignified and elegant tree shapes, all have a strong human touch; and fewer buildings are scattered among them, simple and even desolate but full of artistic conception, and the mind will also become open with the vision. Perhaps this is a reflection of the different spiritual and cultural pursuits and economic strengths of each country. 🎢🍃 As for my limited knowledge, it would be best to visit more places; after all, I have only visited two of Tokyo's "9 Metropolitan Cultural Heritage Gardens" so far... 🌺🌇 #TokyoTravel 🌟✨