South Lake Park

South Lake Park

Info

JR Shin-Shirakawa Station → 10 minutes to JR bus Tanakura, bus stop: Nanhu Park off, 10 minutes on foot
7km 15 minutes from Tohoku Expressway Shirakawa IC via National Route 4.289; or 10 minutes from Tohoku Expressway Shirakawa Chuo Smart IC via National Route 294
About 200 cars, free, Nanhu Park East car park, Sugao Tate car park, etc.

Business Hours

Free entry, Suirakuen is from 9 to 17 o'clock (12 to March from 16:30, entrance reception is 30 minutes before the end)

Price

Entrance freedom. Suirakuen is 350 yen for adults and 170 yen for junior and senior high school students

Spot Category

Park, flower viewing spot


National Designated Historic Site, Meishatsu South Lake Park


Japanese garden "Suirakuen". Many plants can be enjoyed in the four seasons. Shicha to be enjoyed in a smelted space is recommended


"Nanko Shrine", with Matsudaira Sadanobu as the festival god; established with the aid of Eiichi Shibusawa; cherry blossoms in spring and beautiful autumn leaves in autumn


Trees planted by the lakeside fall in color


Suirakuen red leaves light up


The precincts of Nanko Shrine are also dyed red and yellow


Tunnel of cherry blossoms


Rakuo Sakura, about 200 years old, in the precincts of Nanko Shrine

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A flower garden located next to the west of the South Lake Park, which has 200 species of 100,000 tulips in April, 300 species of 18,000 German iris in May, and other anemone nemophila poppies with colorful seasonal flowers until mid-June.

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Matsumoto family

Founded in Bunsei 2 (1819). It sells handmade amudokan made by the old-fashioned method, using a selection of red beans from Hokkaido. Mizukan costs 5 bottles from 970 yen, and Yushana yokan costs from 5 bottles from 720 yen. If you stay at Higashiyama Onsen, it is a classic for locals to buy a yokan from the Matsumoto family and go home.

Tenyon Temple

The grave of Isamu Kondo stands in the name of Shinseigumi's efforts to take over Ichichinaka under the guardian of Kyoto, Japan. It is said that his remains and bones are stored in the grave. It was built by the Aizu clan, by Tozo Hijikata, who wished the feudal lord, Koho. A memorial monument with Hijikata's command name stands next to it.

Seongshan Park

There are 80 kinds of trees, including cherry blossoms and azaleas, and you can enjoy each season.

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