With trees in Kenrokuen Garden as a backdrop, the Nishida Family Garden, called "The Gyokusen-en Garden", is styled in the "kaiyu" fashion. The garden has a number of ponds and, taking advantage at its upper and lower sides of terraced land on a steep slope. The "Gyokusen-en Garden" was named after Gyoukusen'in, the wife of the second lord of the Kaga clan, Maeda Toshinaga.    Wakita Naokata, vassal in the Kaga fief, started designing and constructing the garden in the Edo Period. Since then, four lords of the fief have carried on the landscaping of the garden. There are several hundred different kinds of plants in the garden, as well as a huge Korean pentaphylla pine tree believed to be 330 years old. The changing moods of this garden as the four seasons pass offer us keen pleasure today.    The water that fills the ponds is drawn from a brook around the Kotoji Lanterns in Kenron'en Garden, which would suggest an old friendship between the designer of the garden and the lord.

Fee	500 yen
Powdered green tea is served	Green tea and baked sweets： 1000 yen (including the Fee) Green tea and unbaked sweets： 1200 yen (including the Fee)
Open	9:00am - 4:00pm
Closed	Winter season (Closed days differ from year to year according to the snow falls. This year it will be closed from December 11th to early March next year.)
Tel	+81-76-221-0181

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