5 Recommended Parks in Nakano Ward

Nakano Shiki-no-Mori Park in Tokyo opened in 2012 as a disaster prevention park in the center of Nakano Shiki no Municipality. With a fountain where you can splash around in water and a grassy area where you can pitch a tent and have a picnic, the park is a great place for people of all ages to enjoy leisure activities, and on holidays it is bustling with families and people jogging and doing other sports. The park is also used as a venue for large events such as the Nakano Tohoku Support Festival and the Nakano Running Festa.

This park was opened on the site of the former Nakano Prison in Tokyo. Since 1980, it has been gradually developed as a disaster prevention park along with an underground sewage treatment plant, and after redevelopment work began in 2017, it reopened on April 1, 2020. It has a multi-purpose exercise field, a small multi-purpose field, a water play area, a grass field, a barbecue site, a jogging/walking course, a waterfront field, a dog field, a flower garden, and a playground.

Tetsugakudo Park is a philosophy-themed park established in 1904 by Inoue Enryo, the founder of Toyo University. It was designated a Tokyo Metropolitan Place of Scenic Beauty in 2009 and a national place of scenic beauty in March 2020. At Jiku-Kou Hill within the park, there are a group of uniquely designed ancient buildings designated as tangible cultural properties of Nakano Ward, including the Shisei-do Hall, which enshrines Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Kant, philosophers from all over the world, past and present; the Rokukendai Hall, which enshrines six wise men from the East, including Prince Shotoku and Sugawara no Michizane; and Zettai Castle, which was used as a library at the time.

It was developed as a space for relaxation and activity in a residential area. Everyone from children to adults can enjoy leisure and recreation in a pleasant green space, and there are a variety of fun play equipment such as a large complex playground set on a slope and wall-climbing play equipment. As a park where people can temporarily evacuate in the event of a disaster, it is equipped with disaster prevention facilities such as manhole toilets.

This new park was opened on April 1, 2007 (Heisei 19) after the former Kita-Ekoda Park was renamed. It is a disaster prevention park in the northern part of Nakano Ward that makes use of the rich existing forest on the former site of the National Sanatorium Nakano Hospital and harmonizes with the health and welfare facilities. This area is also a historic site, where American dogwoods were sent to America in 1912 as a gift of cherry blossoms (on the Potomac River in Washington) from Japan and planted in the Nogata Nursery, which was once located here. They were grown as seedlings and planted as roadside trees at the time. The park has a lawn square, a multi-purpose square, a pond (biotope), and more. It was certified as a Nakano Ward certified tourist resource in February 2014 (Heisei 26).