Kosetsuen
【Access】5 minutes by car from the hotel
Kosetsuen in Miharashi Park, Iwafune Minejiro Soho House Iwafune Minejiro of Hakodate City is, in earnest, which was constructed from 1898 around "landscape garden", was used as a villa of Iwafune Clan
Named Kosetsuen has been to have been named in the sense that "plum fragrant garden in the snow" Raihako was in Kyoto of Jodo Shu Chion-in of Kanshu to Taisho period.
To give back for his prosperous business, Iwafune built public toilets and a grassy area, which he opened to the public free of charge in 1927.
Showa 30 years, signed a free lease agreement between the city and the Iwafune Clan, are urban planning decision as Miharashi Park including a golf course adjacent to, the city in the 34 years acquired a land of Iwafune ownership Then, after several city planning changes, it became Hakodate City's largest general park.
The garden includes a teahouse-style pavilion and a wide garden space, and in 2001 it was designated a "Place of Scenic Beauty" under the Cultural Properties Protection Act, becoming Hokkaido's only nationally designated cultural property garden under the name "Former Iwafune Garden (Kosetsuen)."