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Japanese Friendship Garden
A 3.5-acre Japanese stroll garden in Phoenix, built jointly with the sister city of Himeji and named a Phoenix Point of Pride in 2004.
- Rank in Arizona
- #396of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 39.0 out of 100medium confidence
- Most looked up
- Marchby Wikipedia readers
- Category
- Botanical Garden
The Japanese Friendship Garden, known in Japanese as Rohō-en, is a Japanese stroll garden in Phoenix, Arizona, covering 3.5 acres. It is a joint project of the sister cities Phoenix and Himeji. In 2004 the City of Phoenix named it one of the Phoenix Points of Pride.
Where it is
Japanese Friendship Garden is a botanical garden near Phoenix, in Maricopa County. It is one of the botanical gardens in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for Japanese Friendship Garden, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Botanical Garden
- Destination
- Phoenix
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 39.0 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 19.8
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Coordinates
- 33.4610, -112.0760
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12