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View Kubota Garden Tree/Features Google Map. This is an interactive map. Click on the brackets [ ] at the top, right corner of the map to open full size in a new browser window. Contact.
For more information, see the SDOT project page. The garden remains open during construction. COVID-19 Kubota Garden update: The Garden is open. Please adhere to Seattle Parks and Recreation guidelines.
The Self-Guided Tour map shows the paths that are easier to navigate. As a result of the Master Plan Update , a project to create accessible pathways to the picnic area will begin in Fall of 2021. Are bicycles, electric scooters or other motorized vehicles permitted?
Kubota Garden is a 20-acre (81,000 m 2) Japanese garden in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. [1] A public park since 1987, it was started in 1927 by Fujitaro Kubota, a Japanese emigrant. Today, it is maintained as a public park by the Seattle Parks and Recreation and the Kubota Garden Foundation. [2]
The main paths at Kubota Garden are hard-packed gravel. There are changes in grade, though most are slight there are some that are steeper. One section of the 20-acre garden, The Mountainside, is inaccessible, while the Tom Kubota Stroll Garden is easily accessible.
A beautiful destination along the Chief Sealth Trail, Kubota Garden is gorgeous oasis where Northwest native plants thrive in the style of Japanese garden, thanks to horticultural pioneer Fujitaro Kubota.
Now owned and maintained by the City of Seattle, this 20-acre garden is open year-round and is free to the public. Dedicated volunteers offer free tours and events that are particularly popular in the spring and fall, when over 100 species of Japanese maples are displaying their color.
