Nemunoki Garden

Nemunoki means Silk tree.
There're flower beds in this garden.
There're roses which name is Princess Michiko.

This place used to be the house of Empress Michiko.
Her birth house was built in 1933 as the house of the president of Nissin flour milling.

It's payed inheritance tax in kind to Tokyo city when his father passed away.
It's pulled down in 2002 since it became too old to use.

This garden was named after Michiko's poem "Silk tree lullaby".
And her symbol tree, white birch is standing there, too.

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JR Gotanda station on Yamanote Line
Gotanda station on Asakusa Line (A05/Toei Subway)

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