Furoen (Bulova Garden).

Buroen was opened in 1897 by the seventh generation of a kimono merchant living in Kofu City, who cut down a vast mountain range covering a total area of 50,000 square metres in the eastern mountains of the Kofu Basin, made use of the valley, created a pond and opened the garden as a holiday home. At present, the garden is artificially balanced with approximately 2,000 ornamental flowering plum trees, red pine trees, cherry trees, nanten (Japanese nanten), azaleas, maple trees and peonies, etc., and heralds the arrival of spring in the Kofu Basin.
The name of the Garden of the Immortals is derived from an ancient Chinese work of literature, Taishang Kanyue Hen (a Taoist scripture from the early Southern Song period, a representative book that encourages good behaviour and admonishes bad behaviour), in which people seeking immortality enter the Gate of the Immortals and flounder among strange rocks and famous trees to reach a hermitage of longevity. The entrance to the plum garden is named Bōro-en, after the various events that people seeking immortality experience during their journeys.