Japanese garden SEI SHIN En

In one of the most beautiful places in Vilnius – next to Kalnų Parkas and Neris, there is a small Japanese garden with a Sei Shin En (English: Pure Heart) spring.

We invite you to take a walk around the garden, sit in the gazebo and admire the spring and its trickling, plants and chirping birds. Entry is free and without registration. Also, tours of the garden, the House of Japanese Culture and tasting of Japanese Matcha tea, which is drunk during Japanese tea ceremonies, are organized.

The generator of the idea of a Japanese garden is a Japanese artist who has been interested in Eastern culture for many years Dalia Dokšaite. Landscape architect Laura Popkytė Fukumoto (who worked in Japanese gardens in Kyoto), together with her teacher Kodai ji Temple landscape architect Kitayama Yasuo, prepared and implemented the garden project.

The garden complies with the main Japanese aesthetic principles, which are seasonality, simplicity, harmony, natural compatibility with the environment, respect for water, wood, stone… The greatest attention was paid to the arrangement of the source.