Japanse Tuin
Just east from the city center, the delightful 6-acre Japanese Garden is the largest of its kind in Europe. As you'd expect, everything is serenely ordered and precise, with a maze of paths surrounded by lush greenery, streams, waterfalls, koi carp ponds, and delicate pavilions. It was designed by the Japanese architect Takayuki Inoue and built when the Japanese city of Itami became twinned with Hasselt in 1985. At quiet times, the silence is only broken by the sound of trickling water, and the occasional chiming of a Peace Bell, which was installed in 2016.
