Matsudaira-go Enchi Park

Five-acre green space designed to reflect the landscape as it may have appeared when the Matsudaira family governed this area in the 14th and 15th centuries. Cherry blossoms appear in March and April, iris and hydrangea in early summer, and hagi bush clover in autumn. A small stream runs through to a pond, where fireflies appear on June evenings. A path leads to a bronze statue of Matsudaira Chikauji, flanked by seven stone pillars representing the eight Matsudaira generations before Tokugawa Ieyasu, who went on to found the shogunate.