Kodomo Nature Park (Oike Park)

This is one of the largest parks in Yokohama. It is also called 'Oike Park'. In the center of this park there is a huge pond of about 6,600 square meters. This is an old reservoir which supplied water for Futamatagawa inn. According to the 'Shinpenn Musashi Fudokikou', a historical geographic book, compiled in late Edo era, the size of this pond is 500 tsubo (about 1650 square meters). About 200 plum trees of about 30 kinds in the Ume grove. About 1,000 cherry trees in Sakura mountain.