Yakushi-Ike Park
Yakushi-Ike Park in Machida-city, Tokyo is considered among the 100 most lovely sights of Tokyo. This quiet Japanese style park surrounds a central pond and contains 250 plum trees, 2,500 Japanese irises, a camellia garden, a lotus paddy, an old private house from the Edo era, the Yakushi tea house, and a famous statue. A Japanese landscape garden that is famed for its most enormous lotus pond that had been sown from lotus seeds more than 2,000 year-old (with the most enormous Oga lotus leaves) possibly the largest in Japan.