The Keishu-en garden tour

We went to Saga and Nagasaki for 2 days on October 8 and 9. 

First We went to Keishu-en (慧洲園), a Japanese garden in Takeo, Saga. The garden is located next to the Takeo Century Hotel and made by Kinsaku Nakane (中根金作), the greatest artist of Japan who is also known as the Kobori Enshu of the Showa period, which is open in the site of the former Nabashima clan residence in 1979.

The entrance gate of Keishu-en and Yoko Museum. It's a shared gateway, but you have to pay another fee unless you want to see the museum.

A beautiful garden landscape with a mountain shaped tea field in the background.

Let's take a walk to the garden.

A red bridge over waterfall and pond.

Takeo Century Hotel and the Keishu-en pond garden seen from a walking path.

If we look to the other side, we could see a museum that floated in the pond.

The lovely Japanese style karesansui (枯山水) garden inside villa. 

Going back to the walking path, and then we tried to go up to the top of the tea fields.

As we went up the slope, we could see the story tower called Monomi-yagura (物見やぐら).

The tower. It was relocated from the Yoshinogari site in November 2004.

A view of the entire tea plantation from the observation deck.