San Jose offers a wide variety of exciting cultural, recreational, educational and entertainment facilities to its residents as well as the tourists visiting it. A wide array of charming tourist spots lured hordes of tourist to San Jose every year. The tourist attractions of San Jose are in galore. For visiting the major tourist attraction in San Jose all you have to do is to catch one of the flights to San Jose. Hakone Gardens in San Jose is one of the key tourist attractions of the city and a visit to San Jose remain incomplete a visit to this exquisite Japanese style Garden.
In 1915, inspired by both a lifelong interest in Japanese Culture and their travels throughout Japan, San Francisco Hakone Gardens in San Jose was built by the cultural leaders of San Francisco viz. Oliver and Isabel Stine. This sprawling 18 acres green verdure was transformed into a Japanese style abode and garden. Hakone Garden in San Jose is named after Fuji -Hakone National Park in Japan. Stimulated by displays at the 1915 Pan-Pacific the Saratoga hillside was built as a summer retreat for family and friends
The exquisite Japanese houses within the garden were designed by Japanese architect Tsunematsu Shintani, a native. The breathtakingly beautiful tranquil gardens were designed by landscape gardener Naoharu Aihara who was born to a family of Imperial gardeners in Koyobashi, Tokyo. Hakone Garden in San Jose in California is situated on beautiful hillside with a dramatic view of the Silicon Valley. All the quintessential elements of a Japanese garden can be found at Hakone Gardens at San Jose where there is a master stone, a worshiping stone, guest Isle, meandering pathways with centuries old lanterns, and residential style architecture popular with samurai.
If you visit the Hakone Gardens of San Jose you will not only be enamored by the mesmerizing beauty and tranquility of the oldest Japanese-style residential gardens in the Western Hemisphere but you can enrich yourself with a lot of other activities too. At the Hakone Gardens in San Jose you can celebrate a fairytale wedding or an anniversary. Here at the Hakone Gardens in San Jose you can encompass yourself in the peacefulness of the lush bamboo gardens. There are several other enticing features of Hakone Gardens in San Jose. Here you can participate in traditional Japanese art for such as ikebana and tea ceremony classes. You can also rejuvenate yourself with Yoga, Tai Chi and meditation classes here within the Hakone Gardens of San Jose.
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