A year-round wonder, the Lan Su Chinese Garden is an authentic Ming Dynasty-style garden built by Suzhou artisans that brings together art, architecture, design and nature in this 2,000-year-old Chinese tradition. The garden takes up an entire block of the city’s historic Chinatown district.

Since opening in 2000, its covered walkways, bridges, open colonnades, koi-filled ponds, pavilions and richly planted landscape framing the man-made Zither Lake have created an urban oasis of tranquility and harmony. A complete tea experience is offered in the authentic teahouse at the Tower of Cosmic Reflections where you can feel a bridge between the cultures of Portland Oregon and her Sister City, Suzhou China.

Winter

Remembering ancestors and the virtues of respecting elders and ancestors is very central to Chinese culture and has been for thousands of years. This display in the Hall of Reflections in Clear Ripples, shows an altar and the family memorial shrine of a Lan Su staff member.