Shugaku-in Imperial Villa

The Shugaku-in Imperial Villa (修学院離宮, Shugaku-in Rikyū), or Shugaku-in Detached Palace, is a set of gardens and outbuildings (mostly teahouses) in the hills of the eastern suburbs of Kyoto, Japan (separate from the Kyoto Imperial Palace). It is one of Japan's most important large-scale cultural treasures; its gardens are one of the great masterpieces of Japanese gardening.

Although styled as a "detached palace", often translated as "imperial villa", there were never any large-scale buildings there, as there are at the Katsura Imperial Villa. The 53-hectare (133 acre) grounds actually include three separate gardens, the Lower Garden, Middle Garden (a later addition), and Upper Garden, of which the latter is the most important.

The Imperial Household Agency administers it, and accepts visitors by appointment.

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Shugaku-in Imperial Villa ranks #1749 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #70 of the 297 mapped in Japón. Fundado en 1659, más antiguo que el 29% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 399 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XVII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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