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Kubota Gardens
Open Open from 6:00am-10:00pm
Recommended Sightseeing Time: 1-2 hours
Address: 9817 55th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118, USA
Official website: http://www.kubotagarden.org
Phone: 206 684 4584
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Historical Japanese garden donated to Seattle by the founding family.
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The Kubota Garden is a wonderful example of what a difference one person can make. Japanese immigrant Fujitaro Kubota came to Seatle in 1907, and began a gardening company in 1923. In 1927, he purchased 5 acres of swampland in Rainier Beach to initiate a traditional Japanese garden and a nursery for his business. A few years later, he bought more land, and expanded the garden. Catastrophe hit for Kubota and the garden during World War II, when Kubota and his loved ones were sent to an internment camp. Kubota and his sons reconstructed their business and restored the garden after being released, and in the coming decades it functioned as a cultural center for the Japanese community in Seattle, as well as a home, office and nursery for Kubota and his family. Kubota tended for the garden himself until his death in 1973. The city of Seattle purchased the gardens from his family in 1987, and its maintenance has been under the parks department ever since.
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Historical Japanese garden donated to Seattle by the founding family.
There's a Japanese Garden in Washington Park further north, but this out-of-the-way spot in the southern half of Seattle beats it out in my book. It's so colorful and idyllic, and if you like to learn, this is the park for you. I enjoyed reading some of the nice cultural and botanical lessons from signs around the park in between relaxing strolls through the area enjoying the kinds of exotic plants you never seem to see anywhere else in the US -- at least nowhere I've been. Best of all, it's 20 acres in area, and thanks to massive size, there's plenty to explore. I'll be going back again soon, without a doubt.
What a place in Heaven!So much to learn and pass on to other people!Simply amazing!
Beautiful gardens!
I have seen Japanese gardens in San Francisco, but I never expected such a beautiful Japanese garden in Seattle. Different from the American garden, Kubota Garden is very Japanese style, although not big but very delicate. Everywhere shows the elegance of Japanese gardens