Yugayama Enchi Garden

Where Sacred History Meets

Scenic Beauty in Nara

Yugayama Enchi is a 1.3-hectare garden area on the south side of Ukimido and Sagi Pond at the southern edge of Nara Park.

Official sources explain that it was formerly the Nanto villa garden of the Yamaguchi family, who were active in the Osaka business world from the Meiji to Taisho periods. In 1927, the area was added to the nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty “Nara Park” because of the way Yugayama, Sagi Pond, and the surrounding scenery form an integrated landscape.

The garden is also associated with cultural exchange, as painters, tea practitioners, and other cultural figures are recorded as having gathered here. A reconstructed tea house on the western side helps convey this aspect of the site.

For visitors, Yugayama Enchi offers a quiet introduction to the garden culture and scenic design that developed within the wider landscape of Nara Park.

Explore the Sights

See photos that bring Yugayama Enchi Garden to life.

A tranquil park scene with a small footbridge over a pond surrounded by lush green trees and plants.
A traditional Japanese garden with a stone pathway, benches, manicured grass, rocks, and trees, enclosed by a yellow wall and greenery, under a partly cloudy sky.
Stone steps leading upward through a dense bamboo forest with tall green stalks and bright sunlight filtering through leaves.
A tranquil Japanese garden with a small wooden bridge over a narrow pond, surrounded by lush green trees and rocks.
A small green plant growing on a mossy rock in front of a wooden fence and dirt path.
Traditional Japanese tea house with a stone lantern and a garden path surrounded by trees and rocks.
Traditional Japanese room with tatami mats and sliding shoji doors opening to a peaceful garden with trees and rocks.
A traditional Japanese room with shoji sliding doors opening to a garden with trees and rocks, sunlight illuminating the wooden floor.
A small traditional Japanese-style building with sliding paper doors is nestled among lush green trees and plants. A stone pathway with steps leads up the grassy hill, bordered by black posts and ropes. The scene is tranquil and surrounded by dense f
Traditional stone water basin with bamboo spout, used for purification at a Japanese shrine or temple, surrounded by rocks and wooden fence.
Moss-covered stone well filled with green ferns, situated on a mossy ground with scattered rocks and lush greenery in the background.
Stone steps leading uphill through a lush green forested area with trees, bushes, and moss-covered ground.