Oyakuen

A beautiful Japanese garden designated as a national scenic spot. It is particularly known as "Oyakuen" because the historical lords cultivated medicinal herbs in the area where the spiritual spring (medicinal water) flows. The founder of the Aizu Matsudaira clan, Lord Masayuki Hoshina, developed it as a daimyo garden, and the second lord, Masakane, established a medicinal herb garden for research on medicinal herbs used for preventing and treating diseases to save the people from epidemics (encouraging the cultivation of Korean ginseng).