Garden Map

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There are many trails through the garden and all are open to the public.  Protect the garden by remaining out of the planted areas and by walking on lawns and gravel surfaces.  Please supervise children.  Below is a map of the garden.   More detailed maps are available at the information kiosk   

             
                       Primary routes:  

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                      ADA routes:   

Text Box: KEY: 1   Entry Plaza—ProParks Project completed in 2004. 2  Stone Garden—installed during the International Symposium on Japanese Gardens, 2004. 3   Entry Gate—a bronze sliding gate designed and installed by Gerard Tsutakawa, 2004. 4     Wall and Gate House—designed and funded by the         Kubota Garden Foundation. 5 Overlook—gives a first look into the area designated ”a historical landmark of the city of Seattle.” 6 Spring Pond—fed by several local springs. The Kubota family used it to water six acres of nursery stock once planted to the south. 7 Mapes Creek—an all-season creek that runs through the Kubota Garden Natural Area and feeds the Necklace of Ponds. 8  Nursery Plantings—of bamboo, yew, birch, and other     plants remain from the nursery days. 9 Japanese Garden—the most traditional part of the    garden. It features a spring-fed pond and stones left in    the Seattle area 12,000 years ago by the last glacier. 10 Heart Bridge—crosses Mapes Creek and is like a      traditional red bridge on Mr. Kubota’s home island. 11 Mountainside—built by the Kubota family to     celebrate the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, offers the      visitor a miniature walk into the mountains. The     waterfalls are formed by stone from North Bend and     fed by water pumped up from the lowest pond. 12 Memorial Stone—placed in 1962 when Mr. Kubota     was 83 years old. The back of the stone has a brief     history of the garden in Japanese. 13 Lookout—offers a wooden umbrella and a grand view of the garden 65 feet below.

Text Box: The Kubota Garden  

Text Box: 14 Moon Bridge—symbolizes the difficulty of living a good life: ”Hard to walk up and hard to walk down.” 15 Tom Kubota Stroll Garden—features long views, many places to sit, and stone from the high Cascades. It was designed and built in 1999 by Tom Kubota, son of Fujitaro, and a generous benefactor of the garden. The west entrance displays an extraordinary 32-foot­long Weeping Blue Atlas cedar, several Weeping Norway Spruce, a Camperdown Elm and a grove of Cornus mas. 16 Fera Fera forest—a tranquil refuge, originally a nursery planting of Threadleaf Cypress. 17 Kubota Terrace—has open lawns and late summerblooming plants which welcome weddings and other gatherings.