Flower Hill

There's an area called "Flower Hill" in this Roka Koshunen Park.
It's filled with beautiful flowers in every season.

Now we have yellow carpets of field mustard.

It's a surreal view of beautiful flowers with gas tanks.

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<The Nearest Station>

Roka Koen station on Keio Line (From Shinjuku)

<Admission>

Free of charge

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Roka's Houses

Roka's house is open to public. (Currently it's closed for restoring.)
You can get into the main house. Of course, you have to take off your shoes at the entrance.

Two houses are connected to the main house with hall ways.
One is called "Shusui Shoin" which means Autumn Water Study.
Another one is called "Baika Shooku" which means Plum Flower Library.

There's an independent house which is his wife Aiko's residence.

They had lived here for Roka's last 20 years in his life.
10 years after his death, Aiko donated everything to Tokyo City to maintain these houses, garden and his stuff.

Their grave site is just beside their houses.

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<The Nearest Station>

Roka Koen station on Keio Line (From Shinjuku)

<Admission>      Currently Closed for restoring

Free of charge　　　

9：00-16：30     Closed on Dec. 29-Jan. 3

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Roka Memorial Hall

Around Roka Memorial Hall, there're plum trees and bamboo forest.
This hall exhibits materials related to Roka Tokutomi who's a novelist in Meiji era.

Roka Tokutomi was born in Kumamoto, Kyushu which is in southern part of Japan.
He devoted himself to Tolstoy, Russian novelist in his young days. Actually, he went to Russia to see Tolstoy.

He came to Tokyo for university.
He started as a poet and his novel "Hototogisu (Little Cuckoo)" became a best seller.

He had lived here in his last 20 years.

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<The Nearest Station>

Roka Koen station on Keio Line (From Shinjuku)

<Admission>

Free of charge

9：00-16：30     Closed on Dec. 29-Jan. 3

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Roka Koshunen Park

Roka Koshunen Park is a wide open park with many trees.

It has Roka Memorial Hall and his old house. Roka Tokutomi is a novelist in Meiji era.
His wife and his grave is here, too.

There's a park for kids and dog run and area called Flower Hill.
There're many joggers in here.

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<The Nearest Station>

Roka Koen station on Keio Line (From Shinjuku)

<Admission>

Free of charge

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Setagaya Literature Museum

The concept of Setagaya Literature Museum is to maintain culture related to Setagaya city in order to contribute to activate city life in Setagaya.

Exhibitions are materials about literature, writers and artists related to Setagaya city.
They have more than 90,000 materials.

They usually have special exhibitions besides regular exhibitions.
There're Koi (Carp) in the pond in front of the museum.

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<The Nearest Station>

Roka Koen station on Keio Line

<Admission>

200 yen (Regular exhibitions)
Special exhibitions may vary.

10:00-18:00     Closed on Mondays, Dec. 29 - Jan. 3

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