What is now one of the premier botanical gardens in New Zealand began life as a treeless, swampy valley in 1876. The park was named Pukekura in 1907, the name taken from the stream that runs through it.
Part of the retirement villa of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth Shogun of the Muromachi Period, who began the construction in 1482. 35.026551, 135.798047