Ronneby Brunnspark

Ronneby Brunnspark is a historic spa park whose origins go back to the early eighteenth century, with later development as a major health-resort landscape. The Japanese Garden belongs to a newer layer of the park, alongside other themed garden areas such as the Fragrance Garden and Rose Garden. Visit Blekinge notes that although large parts of Brunnspark retain their turn-of-the-century spa-park character, the Japanese Garden and several other themed sections are later creations.

The Japanese Garden was completed in 1987 as one of the park’s contemporary garden interventions. It was designed by Sven-Ingvar Andersson, one of Scandinavia’s leading landscape architects, with Akira Mochizuki. Swedish garden sources describe it as combining influences from Zen Buddhist gardens, the roji tea garden tradition and the promenade garden. In 2025, Ronneby Municipality inaugurated a new building in the Japanese Garden, explicitly presenting it as a continuation of Andersson and Mochizuki’s original vision of contemplation and balance.