Topic: Japanese life
Komagome Rikugien Park"Weeping cherry tree and Daimyo garden"
As far as I'm concerned this is the best "secret" Japanese garden in Tokyo. You can visit it in Komagome, Bunkyo-ku during it's special evening hours ---it's romantic and classy place to put on your best moves with plenty of dark nooks and more than plenty of love hotels next to the park.
Location: 6-16-3, Hon-Komagome, Bunkyou-ku, Tokyo
Seven minutes walk from the Komagome Station, JR Yamanote
Loop Line, Nanboku Subway Line
Special hours 2004 March 19 to 28 for 9 o'clock - 21:00 (entrance to the garden closes 20:30 )
Admission charge: 300yen for adults
This park was constructed in 1695 by Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa the sub-Shogun of Shogun Tsunayoshi Tokygawa in the Edo era. This park has the best you can see today of the trad-garden style of Edo.
Photos and info
http://www.redtailcanyon.com/items/17641.aspx
http://my.reset.jp/~tc1/Rikugien/Rikugien.html
http://members.aol.com/takayaichi/riku.htm