Chandigarh — the city of Gardens will get another unique tourist attraction —Japanese Garden — on Friday.
The theme based garden —Japanese Garden, which spreads over an area of 13 acres, was being developed in two phases in Sector 31 here. Adding to its uniqueness is around 100-foot-long tunnel, which will connect the two phases of the garden.
The first phase of the garden, which is being developed in Sector 31 A and B and second phase of the garden that would come up in Sector 31 C and D would be connected through the tunnel.Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Shivraj Patil will inaugurate the garden on Friday.The garden would showcase unique Japanese styled tourist reception centre, Tea House, pagoda huts among other features and is developed at a cost of around Rs 7 crore. It has meandering walkways for the visitors and illumination of the garden is being done to facilitate the tourists to visit the garden during the evening hours.
The garden also has unique features like Japanese tower, Japanese lanterns and Japanese styled river concepts to enhance the entity of this garden.Other special features include miniature styled hills, small Islands, water features, streams, artistic bridges, stones, rocks etc. The ambience of the garden is further enhanced with the flowering trees like
Camellia Japonica, Chrysanthemum, Carnations, Cryptomaria Japonica and others. The tourist spot also has fruit trees like peach, plum and other various kinds of bamboos and grasses.Apart from this, evergreen plants like varieties of Pinusd-esiflora, Pinusthunbergii, Pinusp-arviflora, Pinuskaraiensis are planted here along with few deciduous trees like weeping willow, Mulberry among others,
A senior official of the UT Tourism Department said, “The new garden will become major tourist attraction for visitors and would enhance the entity of Chandigarh as a tourist destination in this region. With the development of a new garden in the city to maintain the epithet of Chandigarh as a city of Gardens and Greens, this would further broad base the tourism infrastructure in the city.”
“The selection of suitable trees and planting at vantage places has played a key major role in the Japanese garden with an objective to showcase perfection solitude, cascade screening and ambience,” added the official.In the past, two theme based gardens namely the Valley of Animals and Garden of Palms were opened in the city.
The Valley of Animals was conceptualised in topiary form and is unique and different from other parks where all-green similar types of animal specimen are kept at a distance from one another while Garden of Palms has about 30 varieties of Palms. Other gardens in Chandigarh include Rose Garden, Fragrance Garden, Hibiscus Garden, Chrysanthemum Garden, Botanical Garden and Shanti Kunj, leisure Valley, Bougainvillea Park among others.