Yamaguchi's prefectural tourism site gives the peak here as late October to late November. A band of more than a month is unusual for a single garden, and it holds because the planting is mixed rather than uniform.

The garden is attributed to Sesshu, the fifteenth-century painter, and is designated a national historic site and place of scenic beauty. What makes it read differently from other temple gardens in autumn is the bamboo. A stand of it runs behind the pond, so the red sits against vertical green rather than against sky or wall. Sit in the main hall and the whole thing composes into a single picture. Walk the path around the pond and it comes apart into a dozen of them.

There is a night viewing in the middle of November, from six until nine in the evening, with last entry at half past eight. The garden is small enough that an hour is enough, which is worth knowing if you are combining it with the Ouchi-era sites nearby in the same afternoon.

From November the temple opens at eight and closes at half past four, with last entry at four. It is ten minutes by car from Yamaguchi station on the JR line, and about the same from the Yamaguchi interchange on the Chugoku expressway. Admission is five hundred yen for adults. Parking holds around fifty cars.