Place · site

Kōraku-en

1700 · 18th century · Also known as Korakuen

Kōraku-en is a landscape garden in Okayama, Japan, built for the daimyo Ikeda Tsunamasa of the Okayama Domain and completed in 1700. A stroll garden of lawns, ponds, tea houses and borrowed views of Okayama Castle, it was opened to the public in 1884. It is ranked as one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan.

Kōraku-en
Image: 663highland · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 1 state history

Okayama Domain

See also

Cite this entry
APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kōraku-en. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/koraku-en
MLA
“Kōraku-en.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/koraku-en. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Kōraku-en.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/koraku-en.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Kōraku-en’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/koraku-en (Accessed: ).

Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻