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Horikiri Iris garden
Spring
The Kodakaen was the first iris garden in Horikiri to attract broad attention during the Edo period and was followed by several others established during the Meiji era. One of these, the Horikirien, became the Horikiri Iris Garden of today, and is now a protected historic site in Tokyo’s Katsushika.
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This small slice of calm is most known for its 6,000 iris flowers of about 200 species that bloom every summer. The Horikiri district had been a place famous for private-run iris gardens from the feudal times to the early Showa era. Horikiri Iris Garden, or Horikiri Shobuen, is the only remaining iris garden in this area.