Special Message

Garden Path Special Message

A Curator’s Wish for the Future

Dear Members, For many, a stroll through the Portland Japanese Garden is the closest they will come to experiencing Japan. The Garden is a living “classroom,” the lessons of which are many—not only about how trees grow and moss forms on stone, but about the elegant beauty of the curved line of a branch and

Special Message

The Garden Is Growing!

Since 1963, the Portland Japanese Garden has served as the rare place where one can be simultaneously enriched, educated, and inspired. In those 52 years, we have gone from serving 30,000 visitors to over 300,000 per year. Today, the Garden continues to be a living symbol of the strong friendship between the United States and