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Kairaku-en was built in the year 1842 by Tokugawa Nariaki, daimyō of Mito Domain. Unlike Japan's other two great gardens, Kairaku-en was originally intended to serve for the enjoyment of the public, by which Tokugawa Nariaki meant the samurai class.
Ranked among Japan's three finest landscape gardens, Kairakuen (偕楽園) is most famous for its over three thousand plum trees. The garden is located in Mito, the capital of Ibaraki Prefecture. Kairakuen was built relatively recently in 1841 by the local lord Tokugawa Nariaki.
Kairakuen is one of the most popular attractions in Ibaraki Prefecture. It was created in 1842 by the ninth lord of the Mito domain, Tokugawa Nariaki. Like a modern public park, the garden was designed not only for the feudal lord and his warriors to enjoy, but also for the public.
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A garden designed, supervised, and built by Tokugawa Nariaki, lord of the Mito domain, at the end of the Edo period (nineteenth century). He intended to open it to the public from the beginning. The garden is located on a hill to the southwest of Mito Castle, and commands a fine view of Mt. Tsukuba to the west and Lake Senba to the east.
Kairaku-en（偕楽園）. Kairaku-en is a large strolling garden in Mito-Shi, Ibaraki-Ken. It was built by Tokugawa Nariaki in the year 1841 for the enjoyment of normal people of the area. The garden belongs to the Three Great Gardens of Japan.
The Kairakuen was built relatively recently, in 1841, by the local prince Tokugawa Nariaki. In contrast to the two other great landscape gardens of Japan, Kenrokuen and Korakuen, Kairakuen was not only for the pleasure of the ruling prince, but was also for open to the public, Kairakuen means "Park to Enjoy Together" ".
The garden was created by Nariaki Tokugawa, the ninth feudal lord of the Mito domain, during the Edo period. The name "Kairakuen" reflects Nariaki's wish to make it a place where he and his people could enjoy themselves together.
