Japanese Garden, Singapore

Japanese Garden (Japanese: 星和園, romanized: Seiwa-en, Chinese: 星和园) is a park and garden located in Jurong East, Singapore.

Built in 1974 by JTC Corporation, it covers 13.5 hectares (135,000 m2) of land.

[1][2] It is built on an artificial island in Jurong Lake and is connected to the adjacent Chinese Garden island by bridge named the Bridge of Double Beauty.

On the grounds is also a Turtle & Tortoise Museum[5] as well as one of 10 sundials placed around Singapore to promote the interest in science.

[3] Large monitor lizards can be seen roaming in the area of the koi filled ponds.

A brown-throated male Sunbird visits the Japanese Garden