Oyakuen Garden

Review

• Small, but of interest

  Reviewed : 2022.11.08

  Right on the town loop ¥120 bus route, so I stopped in.Not especially attractive, but the remedial herb garden history is unusual.

• THE GREENERY WITH FALL COLORS SET IT OFF

  Reviewed : 2019.10.29

  Besides the lovely grounds there seems to be a development vegetation center associated with the overall gardens. I was very pleased with the whole effect.

• Note how the scenery changes as you walk around the pond.

  Reviewed : 2017.12.30

  Oyakuen literally means “medicinal herb garden”. I understand that the garden was part of a villa of the Ashina family that ruled Aizu until the late sixteenth century. Upon the fall of the Ashina...