Daisen Park
This is a large green park located between the tombs of Emperor Nintoku and Emperor Richu. The open grass field is a favorite jogging course for the local citizens. There are also cultural facilities in the site such as a museum, a library, and a botanical garden. Moreover, you can enjoy walking through the landscape garden in the go-round style with Japanese atmosphere or have a break at a tea cottage associated with Imai Sokyu, a tea ceremony master in the late 16th century.
8 min. walk from JR Hanwa line Mozu Station
Oizumi Green Tract of Land
This green paradise containing 300,000 trees of about 200 kinds attracts families and couples, with an European style flower bed, an open space with fountain, as well as a sports facility. It is also known as a place of interest with 10,000 rabbit-ear Iris's, which is packed with people enjoying the flowers in full blossom in May.
15 min. walk from subway Midosuji line Shin-kanaoka Station
Hamadera Park
The foundation of Hamadera Park goes all the way back to the age of Manyo-shu (a collection of Japanese poems with the last poem written in the 8th century) in which it became a subject as the first park ever built in Japan. The site, which is surrounded with dense pine wood, is still popular with various entertaining spots such as a rose garden holding 6,000 roses of 60 kinds and a swimming pool equipped with a giant slider. You should not miss the Hamadera Koen Station building which generates a retrospective atmosphere.
Admission for the swimming pool 300 yen/ The rose garden is open between March and November (10 a.m. - 4 p.m., closed on Tuesdays)
Near Nankai Honsen Hamadera Koen Station
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