Park & garden

Shinjuku Gyoen

Address: Shinjuku Gyoen Tunnel
Area: Tokyo, Japan
Districts: Shinjuku

Mon: Closed
Tue: 09:00–16:30
Wed: 09:00–16:30
Thu: 09:00–16:30
Fri: 09:00–16:30
Sat: 09:00–16:30
Sun: 09:00–16:30
Hours: Last entry is at 16:00. Closed Mondays except March 25–April 24 and November 1–15; seasonal hours vary.
Price: Adults ¥500; seniors 65+ and students ¥250; children aged 15 and under are free.
How to visit: Enter through the Shinjuku, Okido, or Sendagaya Gate; same-day tickets are available. Advance reservations may be required on some busy cherry-blossom days; guide, service, and hearing-assistance dogs are allowed.
Hours: Ticket required
Hours: About 60 min

Why it is worth the detour

Shinjuku Gyoen is best known for its beautiful gardens and cherry blossoms.

Shinjuku Gyoen is a large, well-known park in Tokyo, offering a serene escape with its meticulously landscaped gardens. It is particularly famous for its cherry blossoms in spring.

What else is close by

The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.

800 m
Hanazono Shrine
In the summer of 1967, Juro Kara's Situation Theatre erected its first Red Tent in the shrine precincts, rejecting conventional playhouses for a temporary, carnivalesque stage. The performances made this working shrine one of the foundational locations of Japan's angura theater movement, and Red Tent productions have continued to return.
950 m
Shinjuku Golden Gai
This maze of tiny two-story bars began with postwar black-market traders and later became an unlicensed red-light district. After prostitution was outlawed in 1958, its cramped rooms became refuges for writers, filmmakers and theater people; regulars Kenji Nakagami and Ryuzo Saki won the Akutagawa and Naoki prizes simultaneously in 1976, sealing the district's bohemian reputation.
1.1 km
Shinjuku Station West Exit Underground Plaza
In 1969, a handful of anti-Vietnam War singers with guitars grew into weekly gatherings of several thousand people here. Authorities countered by changing signs from "West Exit Underground Plaza" to "West Exit Underground Passage" and deploying riot police, turning a single word on a sign into an argument over who controlled public space.
1.1 km
Kabukicho
Japan's largest entertainment district, named after a kabuki theatre that was never built; the Godzilla head looks down from the Toho building.
1.2 km
Omoide Yokocho
«Memory Lane» by Shinjuku's west exit: two alleys of tiny yakitori counters left over from the post-war black market.
1.3 km
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
The Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower is best known for its unique cocoon-shaped architectural design.