Saratoga Travel and Tourism Guide

Hakone gardens is the planned first stop. oochmpgnoo did a review on this site and so we feel it's well worth seeing. After leaving Casa de Fruita it was only about forty-five minutes before we were into Saratoga, where the weather has changed totally.  Dark grey clouds and soon light misty rain.  As we reach Hakone Gardens, our first real stop of the day, it is raining enough that windshield wipers are on full.  This is a record for the area.  Never has it rained a...

Wandering around the oldest Asian and Japanese estate in the Western hemisphere (http://www.hakone.com/) on a very warm Saturday afternoon.

Today we  drove to Santa Cruz and stopped at a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. It was built in 1915 as a  private retreat for friends and relatives of San Francisco art patrons, Oliver and Isabel Stine. Built on 18 acres on a Saratoga hillside, the city purchased the gardens in 1966 to protect it from subdivision and development.The gardens consist of the Upper House, Lower House and four gardens, the Hill and Pond Garden, the Tea Garden, the Zen Garden and Kizuna-En which ...

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