Peace Tree Reserve

Peace Tree Reserve

Silicon Way, Fitzherbert, Palmerston North 4410

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4.1 on Google · 9 reviews

Peace Tree Reserve is a Palmerston North City Council Japanese-themed memorial park on Silicon Way in Fitzherbert, centred on a camphor-tree cutting taken from a Nagasaki tree that survived the 1945 atomic bombing and gifted to the city by Japan as a symbol of goodwill. The reserve combines a contemplative landscape of pebble paths, rock sculptures and Yukimi-gata stone lanterns with New Zealand native plantings linked by a boardwalk, and a small playground tucked alongside the gardens. Best treated as a quiet contemplative stop combining gentle play with a wander through the peace gardens. Picnic seating on site.

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Joseph
Google15 Apr 20260Helpful

Waitangi Day holidays and you go about visiting Pacific Drive. Almost at the end of the road, you find the place you were after: The thematic monument/park/playground that is the Peace Tree Reserve. Humbling and amazing! What you encounter is this wonderful Japanese-style garden peacefully perching on a small hill by the side of the road, tucked away in its own little corner. You find a small playground at the back, some seating, a water fountain at one end, a rubbish bin at the other, and a few picnic tables on the side. But the centrepiece of the garden is the Peace tree, still a shrub, if anything, at the centre of the Zen-like garden. The place already allows for some meditative contemplation, but it is still in its infancy. In years to come, when the tree reaches its adulthood as far as trees go, and asuming the place remains unspoiled as you found it today, you'll be in no doubt that the place will be a veneered point of visit for those atuned to the procedence and symbolism of the tree.

Brad W.
Google15 Apr 20260Helpful

Its ok LITTLE park but LITTLE is the key word. Dosnt have a lot going on.

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