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Yokoso Japanese Gardens, based in Boskoop in the Netherlands, designs and builds Japanese gardens, makes Japanese woodwork and architecture, and sells stone lanterns and other ornaments imported from Japan. It describes itself as founded about a decade ago, and ties its mission of bridging cultures to the Dutch trading history with Japan at Dejima during the Edo period. It cites its network of Japanese advisors and suppliers as a key strength.
Its main tea-related product is the Igokochi Niwakoya garden house, designed as a smaller version of the tea house at Kōdai-ji in Kyoto. Standard inside dimensions are 260 x 260 x 300 cm; it can include a tokonoma, tokobashira, chigaidana and an engawa, and the roof can be kawara tile, shingles or planks. It is fully insulated for year-round use and built mainly of Western Red Cedar.
It is made in two phases: the whole building is first assembled in the workshop to check it, then taken apart, transported and re-erected on a prepared foundation. Dimensions and interior are adjustable; prices including VAT are published for placement in the Netherlands, with quotes for elsewhere. Its portfolio includes roji gardens with tea houses, making it a fit for anyone in Europe who wants a tea garden and tea house together.
Japanese rooms and garden tea houses are also offered under Sukiyado, a brand of the same company (Omloop 1, Boskoop).
A roji garden centered on a traditional tea house. A veranda built along the home overlooks rock arrangements and planted islands in gravel, and stepping stones lead past a tsukubai to the tea house.
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The existing dry river was improved, with a sanzon-seki arrangement of Shikoku stones and an antique kikkō-seki stone bridge. Yokoso hand-built a western red cedar koshikake and a tiled garden shed with washi windows, and finally an insulated tea house with a tokonoma.
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Designs to replace an old barn with a small Igokochi Niwakoya tea house with engawa, linked by a winding path over the dry river to a koshikake, plus a storage shed and a spot for an antique lantern. Untreated western red cedar; visible joints are traditional, hidden ones modern.
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Tea master Michel Decré's existing tearoom was connected to a new roji built on the parking lot behind his house. Kyoto garden master Masui Sachimine designed it; Yokoso built the garden and made a western red cedar koshikake and nijiriguchi.
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An insulated, kawara-roofed tea house in a long-time client's Japanese garden, usable all year. It has an engawa all around, a manekiyane roof that admits light from above, and a tokonoma with chigaidana and a natural-wood tokobashira; plank floors can take tatami. It was fully built in the workshop, then dismantled and re-erected on site.
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An old hobby room was turned into a full washitsu with shoji, chigaidana, tatami and tokonoma for a bonsai and suiseki collector. Designed in 3D and made in the workshop, it uses the client's own dead hinoki tree as the tokobashira.
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The whole top floor of a Dutch home (two rooms, hallway and staircase) for a couple with Japanese roots, with kōshi lattice by the stairs, shoji-divided rooms, a tatami room and a moon window, made both in the workshop and on site.
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A 6 × 4.5 m wooden gate for the entrance of the zoo's new Japan-themed area, combining traditional design with modern construction, built in the Yokoso workshop and installed on site; stone lanterns and a stone bridge were also supplied.
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A gate dividing front, side and back gardens for a returning client, handcrafted in western red cedar in the Dutch workshop with chisels and hand saws, with a board-and-batten roof. The gate and side screens took 160 man-hours; assembly took a day and a half.
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A small side garden with a Kasuga lantern, a full tsukubai, a wooden gate with bamboo fences, stones and planting, built by two landscapers in two weeks.
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Twenty-four sturdy, easy-to-assemble shoji dividers and the company's first torii gate, painted red and black, for a martial arts school.
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The base model with kawara tiles (about 48 m³) is priced in euros incl. VAT for placement in the Netherlands. Inside 260×260×300 cm; outside 420×360×320 cm.
Shell per m³: Oregon pine €1,850 or yellow cedar €2,450; full insulation €450 per m³; foundation €450 per m². A luxury built-in tokonoma is on request, and placement abroad is quoted.
To make the woodwork last, the foundation (ring or full concrete) is chosen to suit the space and soil.
Dimensions are highly adjustable, roofs can be kawara tiles, shingles or planks, and the whole interior is customizable.
Much of the woodwork is untreated western red cedar, which is very durable and weathers to a silver-grey patina.
Visible joints follow traditional Japanese techniques while hidden connections use modern methods. Designs are made in 3D so clients can preview the result.
Japanese gardens mature over time and need specialist care, such as keeping pruned shapes and plucking old pine needles every year.
Yokoso maintains gardens under maintenance contracts and offers advice drawing on its Japanese partners and advisors.
Photos: Yokoso Japanese Gardens official website
| Company | Yokoso Japanese Gardens |
|---|---|
| Address | Omloop 1, 2771 NL Boskoop, Netherlands |
| Phone | Garden services +31 6 206 75 854 / Catalog & sales +31 6 175 56 513 |
| Hours | Weekdays 9:00–17:00; Saturdays by appointment (appointment advised) |
| Business | Japanese garden design, building and maintenance; Japanese woodwork and architecture (tea houses, garden houses, gates, washitsu); stone ornaments imported from Japan |
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