Nishida Family Garden (Gyokusenen Garden) 西田家庭園(玉泉園)
Small, traditional-style garden with an adjacent tea room
The Nishida Family Garden, also called Gyokusenen, is a traditional-style garden structured around a central pond. The stone pathways that wind through the garden’s terraced terrain are lined with plants whose color changes with the season. The tea room that overlooks the garden is perhaps the oldest in Kanazawa, and still serves green tea and Japanese-style sweets.
Wakita Naokata (1585–1660), a wealthy, Korean-born retainer of the ruling Maeda family, began building the garden in the mid-seventeenth century.
Basic Information
Nishida Family Garden (Gyokusenen Garden)
Address
8-3 Koshomachi, KanazawaHours
9:00 to 16:00Closed days
Wednesdays, Winter Period (December 25th to end of February)Fees
700 yen (600 yen for high school students; 500 yen elementary and middle school students)