Early in the 20th century, the San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden, also known as the Sunken Gardens, in Brackenridge Park, San Antonio, TX, was established in an old limestone rock quarry. It is listed in the United States and was also known as Chinese Tea Gardens, Chinese Tea Garden Gate, and Chinese Sunken Garden Gate. Historic sites listed on the national register.

On land George Washington Brackenridge, the head of the San Antonio Water Works Company, gave to the city in 1899, the San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden, also known as the Sunken Gardens, was created. German masons, who used the easily accessible limestone to supply the construction market, broke ground for the first time around 1840. The stone from this quarry on Rock Quarry Road was used to construct many buildings in San Antonio, notably the Menger Hotel.

Ray Lambert, the City Parks Commissioner, had an idea for an oriental-style garden in the quarry pit around 1917. W.S., his engineer With the help of prisoners, Lambert transformed the quarry into a complex that comprised walkways, stone arch bridges, an island, and a Japanese pagoda in 1918 after Delery designed the plans and numerous sponsors funded it.

A Japanese tea garden, also known as cha-niwa or roji, is a tranquil setting for contemplating the wonders of nature and the practice of living in peace. Through the rustic garden, a path of thoughtfully placed stepping stones and lamps leads to the tea house.

Visitors from all over the world have the chance to enjoy the natural beauty, peace, and serenity of a Japanese-style garden in the center of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park at the Japanese Tea Garden.

The area was initially built as a "Japanese Village" display for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, and it featured a Japanese style garden that covered roughly an acre. Makoto Hagiwara, a Japanese landscape architect, and John McLaren, the fair's superintendent, came to a gentleman's agreement after the show ended that allowed Mr. Hagiwara to design and care for a permanent Japanese-style garden as a present for future generations. He assumed responsibility for the land and invested all of his personal resources, enthusiasm, and artistic abilities in designing a garden of the highest caliber.

Until 1942, when they were forced to leave their homes along with roughly 120,000 other Japanese Americans, Mr. Hagiwara and his family resided in the garden, which he later enlarged to its current size of about 5 acres. The Hagiwara family was denied permission to return to their residence in the tea garden after the war, and throughout the years, many of their treasures were taken out and replaced.

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