It extends across 425,433 square meters, and each of its thirty areas features varieties of one kind of plant.

Displays of ume, cherries, azalea, dogwood, peonies, roses, wisteria or other can be seen every month.

The park has a plant protection program to preserve endangered Japanese species and exhibitions and activities related to gardening for the benefit of local citizens.

After the war it was opened to the public as Jindai ryokuchi (緑地, green area) and in 1961 it was given its current name as it became the first botanical garden in Tokyo.

The garden is at Jindaiji Motomachi 5-31-10, Chōfu City, Tokyo 182-0017 From bus stop 14 at the north exit of Chōfu Station on the Keiō Line, the visitor takes an Odakyū bus number 14 (destination Mitaka or Kichijōji), and gets off at Jindaiji Shokubutsu Kōen Mae.