Nakano City Ekoda no Mori Park

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).