Yuushien Garden Shimane Prefecture
Yuushien Garden
Yuushien Garden, Shimane Prefecture 由志園
Yuushien Garden is a beautiful Japanese walking garden with restaurants. It is on the small island of Daikonshima in the Nakaumi lagoon near Matsue.
Famous for its peonies, the garden has plants flowering in all four seasons. May is the time to see peonies en mass.
A classic Japanese circuit garden with pine trees, carp-filled ponds, island and bridges; there are beautiful camellias in spring, hydrangeas and iris in summer, red maples in autumn and, of course, snow-covered scenes in winter.
Waterfall
Restaurants
Yuushien Garden has 3 restaurants (Tel: 0852 76 2255 open -11am-4pm) "Zen", "Momiji" and "Shobu" which offer a variety of tasty set courses made from local ingredients: maguro donburi, beef donburi, soba noodles, eel, tempura, seafood. Ginseng, a Daikonshima specialty is used in many dishes.
Yuushien Garden, Shimane Prefecture
There is also a shop selling local Japanese food delicacies including peony jam, rice crackers (senbei) and Japanese confectionery.
Access - Getting There
Yuushien Garden (yuushien.com)
1260-2 Yatsuka-cho
Matsue City
Shimane
Admission to the garden: 600 yen
Hours: 8.30 am-5.30 pm
Daikonshima is connected to the mainland by bridges. Buses from Matsue Station take about 25 minutes. The nearest station is JR Sakaiminato and then a bus.
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