Matsue Jozan
park
松江城山公園
Hilltop park surrounding one of Japan's few original castle keeps, famous for cherry blossoms and camellia gardens.
Hill district surrounding Matsue Castle, the only surviving original castle in the San'in region. The streets below the castle walls include a preserved samurai residential quarter where low-roofed clay-walled homes line a long narrow lane shaded by pine and cedar. One of those residences was once occupied by Lafcadio Hearn, the Irish-Greek writer who settled in Matsue in 1890 and wrote some of the earliest accounts in English of Japanese daily life. His former home is now a small museum open to visitors, and the adjacent Hearn Memorial Museum provides further context. The castle keep and gardens are a short walk uphill.
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