KOIN-TV, Portland’s CBS affiliate, recently wrote about Portland Japanese Garden’s plans for its Japan Institute campus near Forest Park. Journalist Jashayla Pettigrew notes Japan Institute “expands on the Garden’s pre-existing programming.”
Of the more formalized approaches to leveraging the special qualities of nature, forest bathing, or as it was first coined in Japanese, shinrin yoku, has started to grow momentum in the American cultural zeitgeist.
Mainichi Shimbun one of Japan’s most widely read newspapers, recently covered Portland Japanese Garden’s history and its plans to educate a new generation of Japanese gardeners through Japan Institute and its International Japanese Garden Training Center.
Portland Japanese Garden was deeply honored to be the subject of longtime KGW-TV anchor Brenda Braxton’s final report for the network.
Toronto Sun writer Ian Shantz recently took an excursion through Oregon and made a stop to Portland Japanese Garden.
KOIN-TV, Portland’s CBS affiliate, sent meteorologist and journalist Josh Cozart to Portland Japanese Garden this week to capture the return of our fall colors.
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Portland Japanese Garden has always simultaneously been, outside of Japan, a place of unparalleled Japanese landscape art and North America’s foremost Japanese cultural organization. Just as the Umami Café offers guests the rare opportunity to enjoy world-class green tea direct from the acclaimed 160-year-old Jugetsudo tea company or how our exhibitions showcase some of the finest traditional and contemporary Japanese artists, the organization is always seeking to broaden understanding of the many fascinating qualities of Japan. In July, the organization turned its attention to one such item: whisky.
There are several elements to the Flat Garden that contribute to its stunning beauty. Among them is the larger of the Flat Garden’s two Japanese maples on its northern side.