What other travelers are saying about Ritsurin Garden
This is a spacious garden, with plenty of beautiful trimmed Japanese pine trees. Unfortunately, a large part of the park suffers from traffic noise from the road nearby. Some parts of the park provides good shelter though. There are also too many fences in the park.
Visited May 2025.
A beautiful garden, though not impressive, set within 30 minute bus ride from Takamatsu Station.
Still able to view some "leftover" cherry blossoms. Spent about 45 mins there. It could be hot during warm weather.
I visited in late April so I guess I might have come at the wrong time. The view was not too impressive to be honest, but it’s nice that it’s not too crowded. If you’re hoping to have a refreshing air in Takamatsu, it’s an option. Although you have to pay 410 yen for entry. There’s also some exhibitions of Kagawa’s traditional craft, which are not bad.
A beautiful garden with long history.
We were offered a guided tour and thought we would wait for a group to assemble but it turned out we got our own private guide.
Be prepared for quite some time though, seems it was expected to go around the whole garden for 2-6 hours depending on what you ask for.
He could only speak Japanese so I guess this is more for those that have a really deep interest.
Lovely way to spend the afternoon. 410 yen for adult entry. Spent 2.5 hours there, walking slowly through the gardens as well as sitting down to enjoy dango and read a book. Could easily spend less or more time there exploring at your leisure!
