URL:   http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/PublicFacilities/pages/WatsonIsland/IchimuraJapanGarden.asp  Name: Ichimura Miami Japanese Garden    Alternate Name: San-Ai-An Garden  Address: 1101 MacArthur Causeway, Watson Island  Mailing Address:   City: Miami  State: Florida  Postal Code: 33139  Country: UNITED STATES  Latitude/Longitude: lat=25.779552; long=-80.169068 Find Gardens Nearby Weather:   Phone: +1.305.960.4639  Fax:   E-Mail: ermartinez@miamigov.com  Contact: Ernesto Martinez, Parks Naturalist  Designer(s):   Construction Period: -   Public/Private: PUBLIC  Hours: Mondays - Friday from 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM and Saturday - Sundays 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM  Admission:   Added to JGarden: 7/8/2000  Last Updated: 11/22/2006  Sources:   JGarden Description: This garden, located on Watson Island since the 1960's. In the 1950's, Mr. Kiyoshi Ichimura became enamored with the City of Miami and began sending dismantled objects and materials from Tokyo along with carpenters, gardeners and a landscape architect to design and construct, what in 1961 would become, the "San-Ai-An Japanese Garden." Beginning in Fall 2001, the site upon which it was located was converted to a new facility for the Tropical Parrot Garden that had previously been located in downtown Miami. The Japanese garden has been reduced in size and was moved to an adjacent 1 acre site, where it was restored. The City of Miami and landscape architect Lester Collins Pancoast and architect Thorn Grafton worked cooperatively with the Japanese Consul and The Friends of the Japanese Garden to redesign and reconstruct the Ichimura Miami-Japan Garden. It was re-opened in 2006. This garden is located on the Miami end of the MacArthur Causeway, on Watson Island, the extension of I-395 that connects Miami to Miami Beach. A charitable fund has been established at the Dade Community Foundation to support the completion of this project. Dade Community Foundation 200 South Biscayne Boulevard Suite 505 Miami, FL 33131-2343 Telephone: 305-371-2711 Fax: 305-371-5342

While the roji is meant to be a passageway Altogether outside this earthly life How is it that people only contrive To sprinkle it with the dust of the mind.   Sen no Rikyu   16th century