I am finally posting my pictures of Koganei Park which I took last week. Koganei Park is one of the more famous parks in Tokyo. It is extremely big and features lots of attractions including many grassy areas, surrounding forest, bike paths, children’s playground, multiple sports facilities, a famous cherry tree garden, the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum and much more. It is one of the absolute best parks I have ever visited. The liveliness of the park along with the variety of activities amazed me. I have never seen so many families out enjoying the day at the park. The following are just some of the pictures I took when I spent the entire Saturday (May 29th) exploring it.

One of the many open grassy areas in the park.

A girl playing with bubbles

Other girls playing in the flower garden.

This is just part of the immense children’s play area. If you can think of something a child can swing, climb or slide on this park has it.

The kids even have their own year-round sledding hill! The kids get to have all the fun.

The park has areas for rollerbladers, skateboarders, and freestyle bikers.

The dog area was filled with dogs running around after balls and toys. Most of the dogs in Japan are small dogs, but this guy had some of the bigger dogs I have seen in Japan. The dogs were very friendly and the owner let me pet them.

Yet another grassy area where there were tons of families out camping, barbequing, and playing games.

One of the baseball facilities with teams playing a friendly game.

Along with baseball, the park has basketball, tennis, archery, and even croquet facilities.

A kid out having fun with his butterfly net and water pistol.

Some of the surrounding forest and bike path.

These are the famous cherry blossom trees. If only I came to Japan a month earlier. I will definitely not miss the blossoms come April next year.