Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum & Garden

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Teien Garden offers a rare kind of quiet in Tokyo. Formerly an imperial residence, the site combines Western modernist architecture with traditional Japanese landscape design.
We’re always struck by the contrast: structured interiors opening onto carefully composed greenery. The garden unfolds gradually, encouraging slow movement and observation. It’s not dramatic — it’s precise.
If you need to reset your senses in Tokyo, this is one of the places we’d recommend without hesitation. Architecture and landscape exist in balance, neither dominating the other.