Kenroku-en
Good to know
- Best time to go
- March–April for plum and cherry blossom; late November for yukitsuri snow preparations
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A feudal-era landscape garden in Kanazawa regarded as one of the three great gardens of Japan, a designation reflecting its possession of the six attributes of a perfect garden as defined in Chinese landscape theory. The Kotoji stone lantern beside the central pond is the garden's most reproduced photographic subject. Connecting to the historic Kenroku-en grounds is the adjacent Kanazawa Castle complex, whose reconstructed stone walls and towers frame the garden's northern edge.
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