Rendez-Vous aux Jardins 2024 at the Hôtel Heidelbach in Paris: a secret Japanese garden

For the new edition of Rendez-vous aux Jardins from May 31 to June 2, 2024, we're taking you on a tour of an astonishing secret Japanese garden in Paris. Here's the program that awaits you at the Hôtel Heidelbach, in Paris's 16th arrondissement.

Nature and culture lovers, get ready for the return of Rendez-vous aux Jardins in Paris and the Île-de-France region. This event, orchestrated by the French Ministry of Culture, offers a unique immersion into the heart of green spaces, whether public or private, and features a multitude of activities for all to enjoy. This year's Rendez-vous aux Jardins will take place from May 31 to June 2, 2024. How about a botanical getaway at theHôtel Heidelbach?

Nestled in the heart of the 16th arrondissement, this 19th-century mansion is now part of the Musée Guimet, dedicated to Asian arts. For this one-of-a-kind event, this confidential site opens its doors to reveal an astonishing green setting. The garden is a recreation of a Japanese tea garden, designed as an invitation to travel. The atmosphere is serene, almost meditative. A true haven of peace, unsuspected by the capital.

The Hôtel Heidelbach and its garden welcome you with open arms for this latest edition of Rendez-vous aux jardins. It's a wonderful opportunity to discover an unusual setting of greenery and history in the capital. So, let yourself be charmed by this unusual stroll, between aesthetics and harmony, nature and culture. Make Paris your secret garden!

The Rendez-vous aux jardins 2024 program at the Hôtel Heldelbach in Paris

Trees, plants and flowers, plant references in Japanese poetry of the Heian period
Saturday, June 1, 11:15 a.m.
Seasonal plants, trees and flowers play a major role in naming characters, describing nature and emotions, and enlivening the narrative of The Tale of Genji. The description of Heian-period gardens sheds light on the relationships forged between the protagonists in the various episodes of Murasaki Shikibu's novel.
Hiroko Endo is a landscape architect and graduate of the École nationale supérieure du paysage and the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles. She specializes in the study of Western and Japanese gardens, and works with numerous institutions.
Discover the garden and tea pavilion
June 1 and 2
The bright, open garden, created in 2018 by architects Agnès Latour-Kurashige and Jean-Sébastien Cluzel, is home to an authentic tea house (chashitsu), donated by Japan in 2001, designed by architect Nakamura Masao and built by the finest craftsmen from the Land of the Rising Sun. Its architecture is an ideal of peace and modesty, as well as an example of extreme refinement in the choice of the various woods used. Access to the tea pavilion is via a small pathway lined with stone steps, dwarf bamboo, moss, horsetail, ferns, cherry trees, a lantern and a basin, as a preamble to the rituals of the tea ceremony.

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