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Ichimura Miami Japan Garden

Tourist attraction Park Botanical garden

Compact & tranquil Japanese landscape garden, with an annual Japanese culture festival. People often mention garden, nice, small,


Address

1101 MacArthur Cswy, Miami, FL 33132, United States

Website

friendsofjapanesegarden.com

Contact

+1 305-992-0703

Rating on Google Maps

3.70 (164 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Sunday: 9 am to 5 pm
  • Monday: 9 am to 5 pm
  • Tuesday: 9 am to 5 pm
  • Wednesday: 9 am to 5 pm
  • Thursday: 9 am to 5 pm
  • Friday: 9 am to 5 pm
  • Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm

Featured Reviews


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  • 2/5 Skully K. 4 years ago on Google • 193 reviews
    It's nice to come and relax but max you can spend is about 20 minutes otherwise there's nothing else to do here. It's very poorly managed and there's only one koi fish. There are events of a tea garden and such but there is no such thing happening.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 nicole g. 2 years ago on Google
    Parking for 2 hours was $20. It does not really look like a garden just a small dirt area with some trees and some fish ponds that needed to be cleaned and it had gold fish.
    5 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Levi For W. 4 years ago on Google • 283 reviews
    Rather small and somewhat limited. Absolutely did not fill the 1:10 we planned to kill here. About as calm as you would expect it to be. Fish but no food dispensers, but they leap even at leaves in the water, so I guess it evens out.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Gabriela A. M. 4 months ago on Google • 6 reviews
    Last weekend, we let ourselves be caught up in the pictures/comments of this place that we saw on the internet but the reality is completely different. We must call things by its name. It's NOT a Japanese Garden. It's very poorly managed and was dirty and abandoned ⎯No one there. There is NOTHING inside, it took us 3 minutes to walk it and too much disappointment. Do not look at the photos, they have nothing to do with reality, at least now. In effect, such messiness is a mark of disrespect and disparages the Japanese culture.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 David Y. 1 year ago on Google • 96 reviews
    Super run down 1960s garden made of cinderblocks with dead flowers. The “Zen Garden” features orange traffic cones, rotting railroad ties, and corrugated plastic tubing on the ground. Don’t waste your time.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Michael B. 6 years ago on Google
    Amazing recreation of the traditional Japanese garden. Very beautiful. The photos will explain.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Ekaterina S. 6 years ago on Google
    Very nice and peaceful little garden. I spent there an hour or so and there was only me. You can meditate or even do a yoga.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Morgan M. 6 months ago on Google • 89 reviews
    Very beautiful place. I was the only person there at the time and had a nice time relaxing. Didn't need too much to feel at peace. There were a lot of dragonflies and small lizards. This is one of my favorite places here in Miami to just be.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 John P. 1 year ago on Google • 13 reviews
    Nice park but I wouldn't recommend it unless you're already in the area. Not in the easiest place to get to by transit.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Leonard S. 4 years ago on Google • 122 reviews
    My family went there for the festival. It was a nice place. I would see my self come here to relax and think to my self on my off days.

  • 5/5 Coach H. 4 years ago on Google • 8 reviews
    It's a small place but very nice and well maintained. Met a very nice employee there named Willy, great guy to strike up a conversation with.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Thijs 8 months ago on Google • 26 reviews
    We went to this place today. If you don’t expect much, you will be surprised sometimes. We met the (only) volunteer here. Super nice guy with a passion for the garden, he told is a lot about te place and about Japan 🇯🇵. Good job that there is somebody working on. We had a awesome 25 minutes!

  • 2/5 Nen T. 5 years ago on Google • 8 reviews
    Nice peaceful place,but very small. You can walk entire place in under 20 min. Chill spot if you just want to disconnect from the city for a few minutes.

  • 5/5 Ryan S. 1 year ago on Google
    Such a great display of Japanese culture and history.

  • 5/5 Emma Y. 2 years ago on Google
    My boyfriend took me here it is a beautiful place very tranquil and peaceful.

  • 2/5 Adriana de la N. 1 year ago on Google
    There’s nothing there. It’s really not worth the trip to and the parking

  • 2/5 Sakura 10 months ago on Google
    It's NOT a garden. Maybe a 15 minute trip at most. It's very small and not much to walk around and do with.

  • 5/5 anthony g. 4 years ago on Google
    Wow !! What great Ramen! This place is fantastic . Great service also.

  • 3/5 Jessica B. 3 years ago on Google
    I wonder constantly if I simply walked through the wrong entrance. This garden was not what we expected that's for sure, it was quite peaceful, and a nice spot to sit and just breath. Although, you would do well not too trust the photos of the place. We didn't see any of what we were shown. It was a nice little area to kinda stroll, even though the stroll was timed at exactly 12mins. It's a smaller garden than we expected. I was pretty excited to learn about Japanese culture and see some beautiful greenery. I guess we shouldn't have gone in the middle of January. Maybe I'll revisit in the spring, when the garden has been tended too and all. Loved the area, and the day was perfectly breezy and cloudy, so walking wasn't stressful in any way.


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Amenities


  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible car park
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible entrance

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