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No.204 Toyama park (The Hakoneyama area)

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The promenade at Toyama park


Toyama park is the metropolitan park of m2 (both area totals) with about 180,000 pieces of area which was opened in 1954 and is divided into Okubo area and the Hakoneyama area across Akira government "RI". There is "Hakoneyama" with the highest altitude in the Yamanote Line and (it is not an altitude as much as) a form of mountaineering (but) the Hakoneyama area can be appreciated. The miniature mountain which was in the center with Toyama Garden of the pond spring migration type that Tokugawa Mitsutomo in Owari clan copied to the Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido in the Edo period and that he made there being becomes the present Hakoneyama.
Also, there are that the more notedness of the foot in Hakoneyama is done that there were military establishments at the army military science school and the surgeon school and so on from 1873 to the end of the war and more, too, more elderly ones which are an image, the army, if saying Toyama. "The old army surgeon figure prevention of epidemics laboratory" which is one of the army facilities, too, was established. of the germ weapon in this place OBJ (DO but to become a national infection institute at present) It seems that it was experimenting on the human body to make, in 1989, only about 100 skeletons of the head and the lower back are discovered in the unnatural form and are the place to feel dreadful history in the past. It is many topical parks as the spirit spot, too, about whether or not it is from such a thing.
It gets on the Ikebukuro station east exit, Shinjuku forked road-Shibuya station of the pond 86 system in case of being a city bus and the getting-off is convenient at the stop as Okubo and by subway, the getting-off is convenient in Touzai line Waseda station to Toyama park.

Park itself is doing a mysterious form.
Neighborhood at the park is surrounded by the municipal Toyama heights apartment.
In other words, it does feeling of park's there being in the grouping which was surrounded by Toyama heights and the being of it of being is done.

The state of the park The photograph on the right is a vividness plaza.

Karate part in Waseda University nearby
It is accepting practice "the fight !" using the space at the park.

It raises a flower "The floral plaza".

At a sport plaza, it is playing catch and so on.

There is a brook, too.


It is carved with "Hakoneyama-army Toyama {Z".

The starting point for a climb to the Hakoneyama top
It becomes the top immediately even if it is necessary.

The top from the top
In the summer, the leaf is wanton and far, it can see nothing.

The ruins which are left in the floor under Toyama church (Toyama kindergarten)
It doesn't stand around at all of the signboard of the explanation and so on.
But the state which pauses silently in the thicket of the tree is rather weird
It tells that this was the assembly hall of the army Toyama school officer who was used until the end of the war.
At the "NO" guidebook and so on, it is hardly introduced ruins.

Around, it is surrounded at the municipal Toyama heights apartment.
Originally, if called "Toyama heights", it was built by the Showa 24(1949) year with the barrack disposal material of the U.S. army.
It was said to that it does the father of the housing complex development, too, at about 1000 municipal wooden apartments.
Municipal apartment in now was reconstructed from 1970 to the ferroconcrete appearance.

To make a shutter is moving ahead at the housing complex shopping district in the downtown.


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