With various gardens that scatter the area, the Shinjuku Gyeon National Park is number one on trip advisor for a reason. Try some green tea in one of the tea houses for a break from the heat or humidity, and try some of the ice cream too while your at it. A must do in the greater Tokyo area!

Our family spend a few hours walking around this Beautiful, Peaceful, and Gorgeous Japanese Gardens called the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo , Japan. Wandering around the magnificent grounds taking pictures everywhere of the ancient and beautiful trees, and the Japanese gardens and the stone pagodas. You can take your time and spend the day relaxing as you can... More 

Highly recommended for those needing a bit of a chill out. For the Y200 admission, you can feel as if you're in the countryside, listening to birds, and insects, walking the lake, and visiting the gardens and green house. Its amazing how quiet the park is considering its location.

Went there on a very hot (33C day) but well worth the trip. Garden is separated into different areas, French, English,Japanese etc. make sure you take your camera

Spent hours wandering around the magnificent grounds and enjoying the ancient and beautiful tree. Only down was that I was there at the very beginning of autumn so missed out on seeing autumn leaves and flowers

When it's a nice day, it's lovely to come here, walk around and relax. Lovely to see the Japanese gardens and the stone pagodas. Very picturesque. You can take your time and spend the day relaxing.

This is a very well manicured park. We visited this park after we arrived on a very early morning flight and could not check into our hotel for 8 hours. You can cover about 2 or 3 miles by walking the paths through the park. There is also a very modern looking glass greenhouse. You may want to bring some... More 

popped in here on one of our days in tokyo wandering around. It has some really beautiful gardens and its right in the middle of the city. we spent about an hour wandering through different gardens. Well worth a visit.