Name: Augsburg Japanese Garden    Alternate Name: Augsburg Botanical Garden  Address: Botanischer Garten, Dr.-Ziegenspeck-Weg 10  Mailing Address:   City: Augsburg  State: Bavaria  Postal Code: D-86161  Country: GERMANY  Latitude/Longitude: lat=48.34884; long=10.92066 Find Gardens Nearby Phone: (0)821-3246038  Fax: (0)821-3246050  E-Mail: afgn.stadt@augsburg.de  Contact:   Designer(s): Dr. Kondoh, Mr. Enomoto, Yoshikuni Araki  Contruction Date: 1984  Public/Private: PUBLIC  Hours: 9am - 6pm; open until 9pm in the summer.  Admission: ??  Added to JGarden: 10/18/2001  Last Updated: 9/4/2004  Sources: Christian Laugwitz; official CD-Rom issued by the garden office.  JGarden Description: At 4,200 square meters, this is said to be the largest Japanese garden in Europe. In 1985, the Augsburg Garden Expo was held east of the city near the botanical gardens. The Hyogo-ken sister city sponsored the construction of a new garden in conjunction with the expo. The design is for a grove of European beech trees. The design emphasizes the planes of site rather than the location of features.

In the water Under the pines on shore Stand the friendly cranes; A thousand and eight thousand years Will they live on. Ike mizu no Migiwa no matsu no Tomozuru wa Chiyo ni yachiyo o Soete sumuramu.   Fujiwara Shigemitsu   Kitayama-dono gyokoki   trans. by M.V. Otake   1408