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Best Park in Tokyo

95 places, each checked by our team.

• Akabane Nature Observation Park 赤羽自然観察公園Akabanedai / Akabane-nishi — A hilly nature park on a former Self-Defense Force site in Akabane, with spring-fed streams, a small rice paddy and a relocated old farmhouse.
• Akatsuka Park 赤塚公園Takashimadaira — A long belt of woodland along the Takashimadaira slope in Itabashi, famous for carpets of white nirinso anemones in spring and an old castle ruin…
• Arakawa Nature Park 荒川自然公園Arakawa — A park built on the roof of a sewage treatment plant in Arakawa, with a childrens traffic park, insect garden, ponds and cherry trees.
• Ariake Tennis no Mori Park 有明テニスの森公園Ariake — A 16-hectare park in Ariake built around dozens of tennis courts and Ariake Coliseum, venue of the Japan Open and Tokyo 2020 tennis, with woods and…
• Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park 有栖川宮記念公園Hiroo / Minami-Azabu — A hilly, steep-sided garden park in Minami-Azabu with a waterfall, carp pond and stream where embassy families and Hiroo locals spend Sunday…
• Asukayama Park 飛鳥山公園Oji — One of Edo's original cherry-blossom parks, planted by shogun Yoshimune in the 1720s for the common people, reached by a free, snail-shaped mini…
• Baji Koen Equestrian Park 馬事公苑Kamiyoga — The Japan Racing Associations equestrian park in Setagaya, venue of the Tokyo 2020 equestrian events, reopened with lawns and arenas the public can…
• Chidorigafuchi 千鳥ヶ淵Kudanshita / Chiyoda — Tokyo's most romantic cherry-blossom scene: a 700 m path along the Imperial Palace moat under 200+ cherry trees, with rowboats gliding beneath…
• Den-en-chofu Seseragi Park 田園調布せせらぎ公園Den-en-chofu — A wooded park on the Tama River terrace near Den-en-chofu, with a spring-fed stream, cherry trees and the Seseragi-kan community building and cafe.
• Edogawa Park 江戸川公園Sekiguchi / Mejirodai — A long, narrow riverside park beside the Kanda River in Bunkyo, lined with cherry trees and linked to the Higo Hosokawa Garden and Chinzanso.
• Fuchunomori Park 府中の森公園Fuchu — Former US base turned into a green park with a Japanese garden, Musashino-style woods and the Fuchu Art Museum.
• Futako Tamagawa Park 二子玉川公園Futako-Tamagawa — A modern park above the Tama River at Futako-Tamagawa, with lawns, a viewing deck over the river and a Japanese garden called Kishin-en.
• Gyosen Park 行船公園Nishi-Kasai — Neighbourhood park in Kasai with a free Japanese garden around a pond, a tea house and a small free zoo with red pandas.
• Hamacho Park 浜町公園Nihonbashi-Hamacho — A riverside park of about 4 hectares on the Sumida River in Nihonbashi, with lawns, a sports centre, playgrounds and a terrace looking up to the…
• Hanegi Park 羽根木公園Daita — A hilltop park in Setagaya known for its plum grove of around 650 trees and the annual Setagaya Plum Festival, plus a well-known adventure playground.
• Heiwa no Mori Park 平和の森公園Heiwajima — A wooded ward park on reclaimed land at Heiwajima with a 40-station field athletics course over a pond, cherry trees, a barbecue area and an archery…
• Heiwa no Mori Park (Nakano) 平和の森公園（中野区）Arai — A large Nakano ward park on the site of the former Nakano Prison, with lawns, a running course, sports grounds and a reconstructed Jomon pit dwelling.
• Hibiya Park 日比谷公園Hibiya — Japans first Western-style park (1903), a 16-hectare green square between the Imperial Palace and Ginza with fountains, ponds, flower beds and a…
• Higashi Shirahige Park 東白鬚公園Tsutsumidori — A 10-hectare disaster-prevention park on the Sumida River, guarded by a kilometre-long wall of apartment blocks built as a firebreak.
• Higashi-Ayase Park 東綾瀬公園Higashi-Ayase / Yanaka (Adachi) — A long, 18-hectare park in Adachi along the Ayase River, with cherry trees, a summer pool, sports facilities and the Tokyo Budokan martial arts hall…
• Higashi-Itabashi Park 東板橋公園Itabashi — A family park in Itabashi with the free Itabashi Childrens Zoo and a traffic park where kids can ride bikes on mini streets.
• Higashi-Shinagawa Kaijo Park 東品川海上公園Higashi-Shinagawa — A waterfront park on the Tennozu canals in Higashi-Shinagawa, with lawns, a canal walk and views of the Tennozu Isle towers.
• Hikarigaoka Park 光が丘公園Hikarigaoka — A 60-hectare metropolitan park in Nerima on the former Grant Heights US housing area, with a huge lawn, a ginkgo avenue and a bird sanctuary.
• Himonya Park 碑文谷公園Himonya — A neighbourhood park around Himonya Pond, with rowing boats, an island shrine to Benzaiten and a children's zoo where kids can ride ponies, pure…
• Hinokicho Park 檜町公園Roppongi / Akasaka — A green park with a Japanese-style pond garden directly behind Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi, on the site of a former feudal lords residence.
• Inokashira Park 井の頭恩賜公園Kichijoji — Kichijoji's leafy, lakeside park: rent a swan boat on Inokashira Pond under cherry trees, visit the island shrine to Benzaiten and walk through the…
• Institute for Nature Study 国立科学博物館附属自然教育園Shirokanedai — A 20-hectare slice of primeval Musashino forest and marsh in Shirokanedai, deliberately left wild since the 1940s, with boardwalks, kingfishers and…
• Ishikawajima Park 石川島公園Tsukuda / Tsukishima — A riverside promenade at the tip of Tsukudajima where the Sumida splits, with the elegant 'Parisienne' walkway, cherry trees and big skies over…
• Johoku Chuo Park 城北中央公園Kotake / Kami-Itabashi — A 26-hectare metropolitan park on the Itabashi and Nerima border along the Shakujii River, with sports grounds and a reconstructed ancient pit…
• Kamanofuchi Park 釜の淵公園Ome — Riverside park on a bend of the Tama River in Ome, with a local history museum and a thatched 19th-century farmhouse.
• Kameido Chuo Park 亀戸中央公園Kameido — A 10-hectare park beside the old Nakagawa river in Kameido, popular with families for its lawns, playgrounds, tennis courts and cherry trees.
• Kasai Rinkai Park 葛西臨海公園Kasai / Edogawa — A vast bayside park in eastern Tokyo with a glass-domed aquarium, a 117 m Ferris wheel, bird sanctuary and an artificial beach, Disneyland's quieter…
• Katakura Castle Ruins Park 片倉城跡公園Hachioji / Katakura — Wooded hilltop castle site in Hachioji with a pond at its foot, spring cherries, katakuri flowers and quiet trails.
• Kiba Park 木場公園Kiba — A 24-hectare park in Koto built on former timber yards, home to the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, barbecue grounds, a dog run and a botanical…
• Kinshi Park 錦糸公園Kinshicho — A lively 5-hectare park beside Kinshicho Station with lawns, a gym and pool complex and clear views of the Tokyo Skytree.
• Kinuta Park 砧公園Kinuta — A 39-hectare family park in Setagaya with a vast lawn, a childrens cycling course, the Setagaya Art Museum and around a thousand cherry trees.
• Kita City Central Park 北区中央公園Jujo / Oji — A spacious park in Kita on a former military site, with a large lawn, sports grounds and a striking white building once used by the US Army.
• Kitanomaru Park 北の丸公園Kudanshita / Chiyoda — A wooded 19-hectare park on the old northern enclosure of Edo Castle, home to the Nippon Budokan and the Science Museum and ringed by cherry-lined…
• Kitayama Park 北山公園Higashimurayama — City park at the foot of the Sayama Hills, famous for more than 100,000 irises of some 600 varieties blooming in June.
• Koganei Park 小金井公園Koganei — Huge suburban park of about 80 ha with some 1,400 cherry trees, wide lawns and the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum.
• Komazawa Olympic Park 駒沢オリンピック公園Komazawa — A 41-hectare sports park built for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, with a 2-kilometre running loop, a modernist memorial tower and big event plazas.
• Minami-Ikebukuro Park 南池袋公園Minami-Ikebukuro — A lawn park in the middle of Ikebukuro, remade in 2016 with a big lawn and a farm-to-table cafe, now one of the most popular hangouts in the area.
• Mizumoto Park 水元公園Mizumoto — Tokyo's only water-landscape park, a vast, misty expanse of reed beds, poplar avenues and lagoons on the Saitama border, with a huge iris garden and…
• Momoi Harappa Park 桃井原っぱ公園Momoi — A 4-hectare open grass field in Suginami on the site of a former car factory, designed simply as a big "harappa" (meadow) for running and playing.
• Motofuchie Park 元渕江公園Hokima — A green Adachi ward park with a large pond and the Adachi Park of Living Things, a small zoo and butterfly greenhouse popular with children.
• Musashi-Kokubunji Park 武蔵国分寺公園Kokubunji — Calm park near Nishi-Kokubunji with a large lawn circle and Musashi-no-ike pond, where kingfishers and ducks are often seen.
• Musashi-Seki Park 武蔵関公園Sekimachi — A peaceful park around Fujimi Pond in western Nerima, with rowing boats, cherry trees and wooded paths along the Shakujii River.
• Musashino Park 武蔵野公園Koganei / Fuchu — Rustic grassland park beside the Nogawa stream, with a long cherry season, autumn maples and a popular children's splash pond.
• Nabeshima Shoto Park 鍋島松濤公園Shoto — A sunken spring-fed pond garden on the old Nabeshima tea plantation, with a waterwheel hut and turtles, a few minutes' walk from Dogenzaka's love…
• Nakano Shiki no Mori Park 中野四季の森公園Nakano — A modern park with a big lawn just north of Nakano Station, surrounded by office towers and university campuses.
• Nogawa Park 野川公園Mitaka / Chofu — Spacious riverside park on the Nogawa stream with lawns, cherry and maple trees and a nature observation garden fed by springs.
• Noyamakita-Rokudoyama Park 野山北・六道山公園Musashimurayama — One of Tokyo's largest metropolitan parks, preserving satoyama rice paddies, woods and a thatched farmhouse in the Sayama Hills.
• Oi Futo Chuo Kaihin Park 大井ふ頭中央海浜公園Yashio / Oi — A large bayside park on Oi pier with a sports forest of stadiums, including the Tokyo 2020 hockey venue, and the Nagisa no Mori woodland with a…
• Oshima Komatsugawa Park 大島小松川公園Higashi-Ojima / Komatsugawa — A 25-hectare riverside park straddling Koto and Edogawa wards on the Arakawa, with a kite-flying plaza, sports fields and the old Komatsugawa lock…
• Otaguro Park 大田黒公園Ogikubo — A small, perfectly kept Japanese garden on the former estate of the music critic Otaguro Motoo, a short walk from Ogikubo Station. A gingko-lined…
• Otomeyama Park おとめ山公園Shimo-Ochiai — A deep, spring-fed valley of woods in Shimo-Ochiai, once a shogunal hunting ground, where locals raise fireflies each summer.
• Oyokogawa Shinsui Park 大横川親水公園Narihira / Oshiage — A 1.8-kilometre linear park built on a filled-in river, running south from Narihirabashi below the Tokyo Skytree with ponds, streams and play areas.
• Rinshi-no-mori Park 林試の森公園Shimomeguro / Koyamadai — A former national forestry research station turned wild woodland park, full of exotic giant trees, one of the most loved green spaces in south Tokyo.
• Saigoyama Park 西郷山公園Aobadai — A sloping lawn park in Aobadai with sweeping views west across Tokyo, on the former estate of Saigo Tsugumichi, brother of Saigo Takamori.
• Sakuragaoka Park 桜ヶ丘公園Seiseki-Sakuragaoka / Tama — Hilly wooded park in the Tama Hills with forest walks, views and the Western-style Former Tama Seiseki Memorial Hall.
• Sarue Onshi Park 猿江恩賜公園Sumiyoshi / Sarue — A 14.5-hectare park on a former Edo shogunate timber yard, gifted by the Imperial Household in 1924, with tennis courts, a playground and…
• Sayama Park 狭山公園Higashiyamato / Lake Tama — Wooded hill park on the shore of Lake Tama, known for cherry blossoms and sunsets over the reservoir and its domed water tower.
• Sendaibori River Park 仙台堀川公園Kitasuna / Minamisuna — A green corridor several kilometres long built on the former Sendaibori canal in Koto, with water channels, cherry and plum trees and quiet walking…
• Sengenyama Park 浅間山公園Fuchu — Small wooded hill in Fuchu with three crests, the only wild colony of Musashino-kisuge lilies and a listed Mt. Fuji viewpoint.
• Senzoku-ike Park 洗足池公園Senzoku-ike — A large spring-fed pond in south Tokyo with boats, a Benten shrine island, cherry trees and the grave of Katsu Kaishu, where Nichiren is said to…
• Setagaya Park 世田谷公園Ikejiri — A 7.9-hectare park near Sangenjaya with a miniature steam train ride, a real D51 locomotive, a fountain plaza and a summer pool.
• Shakujii Park & Sanpoji Pond 石神井公園・三宝寺池Shakujii / Nerima — Two very different ponds a short walk from Shakujii-koen Station: boat-filled Shakujii Pond and the wild, spring-fed Sanpoji Pond, ringed by marsh…
• Shiba Park 芝公園Shibakoen — One of Japans oldest public parks, wrapped around Zojo-ji temple at the foot of Tokyo Tower, with lawns, a maple valley and an ancient burial mound.
• Shimizudani Park 清水谷公園Kioicho — A sunken, spring-fed woodland pocket below the Kioicho hotels, with a carp pond, stone lanterns and the monument to Meiji statesman Okubo…
• Shinagawa Central Park しながわ中央公園Nishi-Shinagawa — A wide lawn park in Nishi-Shinagawa with sports grounds, fountains and play areas, a favourite with local families near Shimo-Shinmei.
• Shinagawa Kumin Park しながわ区民公園Katsushima — A 14-hectare bayside ward park in Shinagawa with a big saltwater pond, the Shinagawa Aquarium, a summer pool and barbecue areas.
• Shinjuku Central Park 新宿中央公園Nishi-Shinjuku — An 8.8-hectare park at the foot of the West Shinjuku skyscrapers, with an artificial waterfall, lawns, a cafe complex and Kumano Shrine next door.
• Shinozaki Park 篠崎公園Shinozaki — A big metropolitan park beside the Edogawa river in eastern Edogawa ward, with a cherry-tree lawn, plum grove, open fields and an embankment where…
• Shioiri Park 汐入公園Minami-Senju — A 13-hectare riverside metropolitan park on a bend of the Sumida River in Minami-Senju, with lawns, cherry trees, barbecue areas and Skytree views.
• Showa Kinen Park 国営昭和記念公園Tachikawa — A colossal 180-hectare national park in Tachikawa with seasonal flower seas, tulips, poppies, cosmos, a golden ginkgo avenue, a Japanese garden and…
• Soshigaya Park 祖師谷公園Kami-Soshigaya — A quiet metropolitan park in west Setagaya along the Sengawa stream, with lawns, cherry trees and playgrounds, loved by local families.
• Sotobori Park 外濠公園Ichigaya / Iidabashi — A 2 km embankment promenade on the old outer moat of Edo Castle, lined with some 240 cherry trees above the Chuo Line trains and the boat-dotted…
• Sumida Park 隅田公園Asakusa — Riverside promenades on both banks of the Sumida in Asakusa, lined with cherry trees and framing Tokyo Skytree, an Edo-era hanami spot and front-row…
• Symbol Promenade Park シンボルプロムナード公園Ariake / Aomi — A long pedestrian park forming the green spine of the Odaiba and Ariake waterfront, with fountains, lawns and the Yume no Ohashi bridge.
• Tamagawadai Park 多摩川台公園Den-en-chofu — A long ridge-top park in Den-en-chofu built on ancient burial mounds, looking over the Tama River to Kanagawa, with a hydrangea valley in June.
• Tatsumi no Mori Kaihin Park 辰巳の森海浜公園Tatsumi — A bayside forest park in Tatsumi with barbecue grounds, wooded paths and lawns, next to Tokyos Olympic aquatics venues.
• Togoshi Park 戸越公園Togoshi — The former Hosokawa clan villa garden in residential Shinagawa, with a large carp pond, a waterfall, a stone-paved valley and a grand wooden gate,…
• Tokyo Port Wild Bird Park 東京港野鳥公園Tokai / Haneda — Reclaimed wetlands and tidal flats beside Haneda's cargo zone, now a 36-hectare bird sanctuary with observation hides, over 230 species recorded…
• Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park 東京臨海広域防災公園Ariake — Waterfront lawn park in Ariake with a free disaster-prevention center that simulates the first 72 hours after a major earthquake.
• Toneri Park 舎人公園Toneri — One of the largest parks in the 23 wards, a 60-plus hectare metropolitan park in Adachi with a big lake, a thousand cherry trees, a bird sanctuary…
• Toyosu Park 豊洲公園Toyosu — A waterfront lawn park beside LaLaport Toyosu on the old IHI shipyard site, with harbour views towards Harumi and the Ginza skyline.
• Ueno Park 上野恩賜公園Ueno — Tokyo's great cultural park: national museums, a zoo, temples and shrines, Shinobazu Pond's lotus fields and 800 cherry trees that make it the…
• Ukima Park 浮間公園Ukima / Funado — A peaceful metropolitan park around a large pond that was once a bend of the Arakawa, with a Dutch-style windmill, cherry trees and wild sakurasou…
• Ume no Koen (Ome Plum Park) 梅の公園Ome / Yoshino Baigo — Hillside plum park in Ome's Yoshino Baigo district, replanted with about 1,200 trees after disease forced a full felling in 2014.
• Wadabori Park 和田堀公園Omiya / Eifuku — A long metropolitan park following the Zenpukuji River through Suginami, with ponds, woods, a fishing pond and cherry trees along the banks.
• Yokojukkengawa Shinsui Park 横十間川親水公園Kitasuna / Toyo — A canal-side park running north-south through Koto, where volunteers row traditional Japanese wasen boats and paths follow the water for nearly two…
• Yoyogi Park 代々木公園Harajuku / Shibuya — Tokyo's big, loose, joyful park next to Meiji Jingu, Sunday rockabilly dancers, drum circles, weekend food festivals, ginkgo avenues and huge lawns…
• Yumenoshima Park 夢の島公園Yumenoshima — A 43-hectare bayside park on a former landfill island, with the Lucky Dragon No. 5 exhibition hall, sports grounds and the 2020 Olympic archery venue.
• Zenpukuji Park 善福寺公園Zenpukuji / Nishi-Ogikubo — A quiet, spring-fed lake park in north-west Suginami that is everything Inokashira Park used to be before it got famous: two wooded ponds, herons,…
• Zenpukujigawa Ryokuchi 善福寺川緑地Asagaya / Hamadayama — Long green belt along the Zenpukuji River in Suginami, lined with cherry trees and linked to Wadabori Park downstream.