Abstract
Kazumi Iinuma, who played an important role in the development of town planning in Japan, regarded the garden city theory as the bible of town planning. However, his vision on garden city was different from Howard's garden city theory in some points. When compared Howard's theory with the vision of Iinuma on garden city, the following findings were obtained. While there were close resemblance between Iinuma's vision and the vision generally seen in Western town planning theory of those days, Iinuma uniquely related garden city theory to national planning and possitioned garden city from broader point of view without influences of western town planning theory.
