The garden equipped with Ryumon-baku (Dragon-gate water fall), a spacious Kyoko-chi pond, Iwajima (an island in the pond, which consists of only rocks and stones) and Kusen-hakkai-seki (stones expressing nine mountains and eight seas) is near Western Paradise, and it is said that Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA praised its scenery as being no less beautiful than that of Saiho-ji Temple.
竜門瀑や広大な鏡湖池と池中の大小の島々や岩島・丸山八海石を配した庭園は西方極楽に変え難く、足利義政は西方寺にも劣らない風景であると賞したとされる。