Inokashira-Park
The Inokashira Park (Japanese井の頭 恩賜 庭園, Inokashira Onshi kōen, dt " Inokashira Imperial Gift Park" ) is a park in Musashino and Mitaka the vicinity of Tokyo.
History
This park was created in 1913 as the first park outside the city. After a systematic design process, he opened four years later. It surrounds the Inokashira pond that supplied as source area over the Kanda - Josui channel Edo / Tokyo until 1898 with water. On the western edge of the later applied Tamagawa Josui channel touches the park. Surrounded by trees elongated pond is close to other green spaces at: the Inokashira - Park Zoo and Inokashira Shizen Bunkaen (井の頭 自然 文化 園, " Nature and Culture Park Inokashira " ) to the west, Nishien (西 园, "West Park " ) south and Dai -ni - kōen (第二 公园, " 2 Park " ) west of the Tamagawa Josui channel. They also contain sports facilities.
The pond is its name - translated as " Haupt-/Kopf-Quellteich " - Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu received from, but there are also other explanations. The pond has seven bubbling springs. The name of a source on the edge, Ocha -no- mizu (お茶の水, " tea water " ), comes from a visit to Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had seen there water for his tea.
The pond is lined with 400 cherry trees that spread their branches up over the water. The petals swirling like a blizzard across the pond. A memorial stone commemorates ujhere Noguchi (野 口 雨 情; 1882-1945), who is known for his nature-loving seals.
There are west of the Inokashira pond - a hill Gotenyama (御 殿 山, "Residence mountain"), whose name is attributed to Iemitsu, is said to have operated from there falconry. The hill was first populated in the Jōmon period. On the southeast slope are plum trees that are known for their very early flowering. In the 1970s, nearly a hundred additional trees were planted.
On a pond Benzaiten Shrine, the Utagawa Hiroshige is in the winter as a leaf of a three - series " Snow, Moon and Flowers " (雪 月 花) has shown. Hiroshige took up the subject later in his 100 Views of Edo once more. On the opposite bank there is also a Inari Shrine.
Today is the Inokashira Park one of the prefecture -operated farms ( toritsu kōen ) The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the kōen commissioned by the prefectural government of the Tōkyō-to Kyōkai (东京 都 公园 协会, " Park Society of Tokyo prefecture ," engl. Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association) be operated.
Access
The park can be reached via the JR Chūō Main Line, Kichijoji Station, Keio Inokashira Line or, Inokashira station.
Characteristics
- Carrier: Tokyo Prefecture.
- Opening: May 1, 1917
- Area: 363,772.99 sqm, including 10,000 sqm of lawn
- Trees: 11,060 Trees ( 1995)
- Busch stock: 12,800 m² bushland
- Facilities: sports field, tennis courts, pool, restaurant, kiosk
- Boats can be hired