A daimyo stroll garden whose origins date to 1636, when Hosokawa domain lord Hosokawa Tadatoshi opened a tea house on the site. Fed by abundant springs flowing from Mount Aso, the garden is famous for its landscape recreating the fifty-three post stations of the Tokaido, with an artificial Mount Fuji and pine-lined paths surrounding a central pond. Designated a National Special Place of Scenic Bea…

The origins of Suizenji Jojuen date to 1636, when Hosokawa Tadatoshi, the first lord of the Kumamoto domain, established a tea house on the present site. During the reign of the third domain lord, Hosokawa Tsunatoshi, in the latter half of the 17th century, the garden was extensively developed into …