Name: Hayward Japanese Gardens  Japanese Garden - Hayward, Calif. Photo: James Phillips   Alternate Name:   Address: 22373 N. Third St. at Crescent  Mailing Address: Hayward Area Parks and Recreation  City: Hayward  State: California  Postal Code: 94546  Country: UNITED STATES  Latitude/Longitude: lat=37.682146; long=-122.079859 Find Gardens Nearby Weather:   Phone: +1.510.881.6700 or 510.881.6715  Fax: +1.510.888.5758  E-Mail: info@haywardrec.org  Contact:   Designer(s): Kimura Kimio  Contruction Date: 1980  Public/Private: PUBLIC  Hours: Daily, 10am - 4pm  Admission: Free  Added to JGarden: 1/1/1996  Last Updated: 2/17/2004  JGarden Description: This site includes a koi pond, teahouse and several viewing pavilions set along a ravine. More than three acres of Japanese and native California trees, rocks, and plants are arranged in traditional Japanese style. The area also includes a small pond containing koi and golfish, as well as a teahouse. Bibliography Doss, Margo Patterson. " A Terrific New Garden." San Francisco Chronicle magazine. March 27, 1985, p 4. Kimura Kimio. "Japanese Landscape Design and it's Applications." Master's thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1971.

With the south wind a gentle goddess came. She soaked the bronze, she soaked the fountain, She soaked the swallow's belly and its feathers of gold. She hugged the tide, lapped the sand, drank the fish. Secretly she soaked the temple, the bath-house, the theatre, The confusion of her platinum lyre --   the tongue of the goddess -- secretly. Soaked my tongue.   Nishiwaki Junzaburô   trans. by Bownas and Thwaite   20th century