See Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Japanese Maples for Whatever You Wish to Pay
The 1915 Japanese hill and pond garden holds Brooklyn's loudest fall color, and you set your own daytime ticket price.
🍁 Built to Be Walked Slowly
Three 20 foot Japanese maples stand just inside the Japanese Garden's own gate, their lacy leaves turning red and purple above the pond, and two cutleaf maples lean over the path near the island. Takeo Shiota designed it in 1915, the first Japanese garden in an American public botanic garden, and Japanese American gardener Frank Okamura brought it back after the war.
Autumn color starts in October, and when foliage peaks the Garden's fall guide points to this garden for maples in orange, red, yellow and purple.
Daytime admission through January 15, 2027 is pay what you wish, and the Garden asks visitors to give what they can. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with last entry at 3 p.m., closed Mondays, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Some areas may be inaccessible while Lightscape is installed, and the Garden does not say which, so confirm the Japanese Garden paths are open before you travel. Enter at 990 Washington Avenue or 455 Flatbush Avenue, the 150 Eastern Parkway gate is closed.
