The Ninomaru gardens of the Nijō castle in Kyoto have been designed by garden master Kobori Enshu. The palace was built for the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early Edo period (1603-1868). The garden has a large pond with three islands that symbolize Horai-San, and the crane and turtle mountains of the Taoist mythology.
Look from platform where the five-story white castle donjon is missing over the inner moat of Nijo castle, Kyoto, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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