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The Seattle Japanese Garden is a 3.5 acre (14,000 m²) Japanese Garden in Seattle, Washington , located in the southwest corner of the Washington Park Arboretum along Lake Washington Boulevard E. The decision had been made to include a Japanese garden in the Arboretum in 1937 , but it took 20 years for fundraising to begin. Kiyoshi Inoshita and Juki Iida were appointed as designers and completed their plans in 1959 . Construction began and was completed the next year, 1960 . The garden's teahouse, donated by the city of Tokyo in 1959 , was burned by vandals in 1973 and reconstructed by Yasunori "Fred" Sugita in 1980 and 1981 . During 2001 and 2002 , renovation took place under the direction of Koichi Kobayashi. As of 2006 , the garden is open to the public from February 26 to November 30, 10 a.m. to dusk. Admission is free for children under 5, $3.00 for students and senior citizens, and $5.00 for adults. Public Tours are offered (free with regular garden admission) April through October on Wednesdays at 12:30pm and on Saturdays and Sundays at 12:30pm and at 2:30pm. There are also Tea Demonstrations called: Chado - the Way of Tea - it's demonstrated on the following Saturdays at 1:30pm : May 13&20, June 10&17&24, July 8&15&22, August 5&19&26, September 9&16, and October 7& the 21st. EXTERNAL LINKS
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