・Cheaper than tickets bought onsite and you won't have to line up and wait anymore.
・Aizu Matsudaira Clan Garden Oyakuen originated in the villa that was built during the Muromachi period by Morihisa Ashina in this area where a sacred spring gushed forth. Flowers bloom every season in the garden, making this garden that was loved by feudal lords for generations even more beautiful.
Open: 8:30am-5:00pm (last entry: 4:30pm); open all year round
Oyakuen covers about 1.7 hectares and at its center is a large stroll garden with a pond that is shaped like the kanji character for "heart". Enveloped in a quiet and elegant atmosphere, it is a place where you will get to see plants from all four seasons in one place, condensing Japan's beauty into one area. Generations of Aizu Matsudaira feudal lords made the Aizu culture flourish here in Oyakuen. Its history goes back around 600 years. After Morihisa Ashina, the military governor of the Aizu Domain, built a villa in this area during the Muromachi period, Masayuki Hoshina, the founder of the Aizu Matsudaira Domain, maintained the villa as a daimyo (feudal lord) garden. A medicinal herb garden was later built in the property to save the people of the domain from epidemics and to study herbs used in the prevention and treatment of diseases. About 300 kinds of medicinal herbs and trees have been passed down through generations and continue to be protected in the garden to this day. Please spend a relaxing and healing time here as you marvel at the passage of time and the changes of the seasons.