Kinuta Park
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Kinuta Park (砧公園, Kinuta Kōen) is a park in
Kinuta Park is famous for its
Facilities
There are
The 1.66 km cycling course doubles as a walking course outside the hours of 9 am and 4 pm.History
The park was a wooded area. It was planned as a park in 1935 ahead of the 2,600th anniversary of the legendary founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu, the mythical first emperor of Japan. After Japan was awarded the 1940 Summer Olympics in 1936 it was planned that the Olympic village would have built either here in the Todoroki Gorge area. After the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 the Olympics were forfeited to Helsinki in Finland, (the runner-up in the bidding process) but were later cancelled entirely due to World War II.
In 1957 the area became a public golf course, which was later closed and turned into the park in its current form.[2][1] The park still resembles a golf course when seen from above.
Access
The
References
- ^ OCLC 56431036. Archived from the originalon 2007-08-25. Retrieved 2012-08-24.
- ^ Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association - Parks Archived 2017-05-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved May 3, 2017
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