Figure 1.--Here we see a Japanese school group have an outing in a large urban park. It looks like they are in the country. Notice the smocks the children are wearing. Put your cursor on the image for an enlargemebt of the children playing. |
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Japan has some lovely urban parks. A wondrrful diversion from the country's crowded cities. Japan is heavily urbanized and these parks offer some badly needed green spaces for the people of the densely populated cities. We do not have a lot of information about these parks. I recall visiting Japan in the 1970s. I did not see a lot of small comminity parks. Rather I noted a small number of large parks. Often a temple complek or other important attractin wasat the center of the Japanese parks. Several are very famous in Japan. We do not yet have much information as to when these parks were created or conventions about their use. We note families using them for recreation. Some photographs show families wearing suits and other formal clothes rather than casual clothes when visitging these parks. A good example is an unidentified young family about 1960. faWe also notice school groups visiting these parks. This was often to visit the templel or other attraction, but we noticed recrearional events organized for younger children at the parks.
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