05/29/2022
Sunday, May 29th Coffee & Bikes will pay homage to Tokyo landscape designer Ken Nakajima by meeting at Houston’s Japanese Garden in Hermann Park. The garden was designed by Ken Nakajima and opened in 1992.
Takeshi “Ken” Nakajima (中島 健, Nakajima Ken) was an important landscape architect and designer of Japanese gardens. Outside Japan, he designed the Montreal Botanical Garden, the Cowra Japanese Garden and Cultural Centre in Australia, the Japanese Garden in Hermann Park, The Japanese Garden at the Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences, and the Setagaya Parc in Vienna.
Born in Japan in 1914, Takeshi “Ken” Nakajima graduated from the Tokyo University of Agriculture in 1937, where he later became a faculty member. In 1957, he started his own company called Consolidated Garden Research, based in Tokyo.
Route Details
Meet up: 7:00 AM at Japanese Garden in Hermann Park
Roll out: 7:30 AM
First stop: Campesino Coffee House
Second stop: Brass Tacks Coffee
Return: Japanese Garden
Ride pace: 11 mph
Distance: 15 miles
90 seconds of Coffee & Bikes featuring a turtle, birdies, doggies, and wheelies.
