Recently, the citizen participation process in public administration is being introduced in Japan. And citizen participation in the administration of gardens of cultural properties is also coming to the fore. In consideration of this social situation, we investigated a good way of administrating gardens of cultural properties by citizen participation. We distributed a questionnaire to participants in a garden symposium for ordinary citizens held in Kyoto. Furthermore, to acquire new knowledge, we made a multilateral assessment by comparing the results of previous surveys that investigated the awareness of gardeners and administrators of gardens of cultural properties in Kyoto, about garden administration. The results showed that the majority of the three respondents desired restoration of the gardens rather than their evolution, and the tightening of landscape conservation regulations. But regarding the utilization of gardens as modern event spaces, we found a different trend among the ideas of the three. In addition, adoption of volunteers for garden maintenance was approved by about 70 percent of the participants in the symposium. We think that it is important to promote acceptance of various public comments and volunteer works in order to make gardens of cultural properties more open as national collective properties.
