is a public park that straddles the

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and

Itabashi is a special ward located in Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. In English, it calls itself Itabashi City. Itabashi has sister-city relations with Burlington, Ontario, in Canada; Shijingshan District of Beijing in the People's Republic of China; and ...

wards of

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in Japan. The western half of the park lies in Nerima Ward, while the eastern half is in Itabashi Ward. The park opened on 1 April 1957.

Sports facilities

Jōhoku-Chūō Park has two main Japanese-style baseball fields and two small baseball fields (for

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

and junior Japanese-style baseball). It also has an

athletics stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...

(dirt surface), tennis courts (four hard courts, four clay courts, one artificial grass court), and a gymnasium called .

Nature

The main trees and plants that can be found in the park include Chinese parasol tree, ginkgo, Japanese zelkova, cherry ( someiyoshino),

sawara cypress ''Chamaecyparis pisifera'' (Sawara cypress or Sawara ja, サワラ , translit=Sawara) is a species of false cypress, native to central and southern Japan, on the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū.Farjon, A. (2005). ''Monograph of Cupressaceae and ...

sasanqua ''Camellia sasanqua'', with common name sasanqua camellia, is a species of ''Camellia'' native to China and Japan. It is usually found growing up to an altitude of 900 metres. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 5 m tall. The leaves are bro ...

azalea Azaleas are flowering shrubs in the genus ''Rhododendron'', particularly the former sections ''Tsutsusi'' (evergreen) and '' Pentanthera'' (deciduous). Azaleas bloom in the spring (April and May in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, and Octob ...

and

camellia ''Camellia'' (pronounced or ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are more than 220 described species, with some controversy ...

. Further, Tama Zoological Park cultivates ''

Eucalyptus ''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including '' Corymbia'', they are commonly known as euca ...

'' in six locations in Japan as food for its

koala The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear (''Phascolarctos cinereus''), is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the womb ...

s, and Jōhoku-Chūō Park is one of them. Nine kinds of ''Eucalyptus'' are grown here.

Archaeological sites

Both the Kurihara Ruins and the Moro Heritage Site are located in the park.

Retention basin

retention basin A retention basin, sometimes called a wet pond, wet detention basin, or stormwater management pond (SWMP), is an artificial pond with vegetation around the perimeter and a permanent pool of water in its design. It is used to manage stormwater r ...

is currently being constructed in the park to handle excess water in the

Shakujii River The is a river which flows through the northwest quadrant of central Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the tributaries of the Arakawa River. With a total length of and a drainage basin of , it is categorized as a Class A river by the Japanese govern ...

particularly during times of torrential rainfall. Expropriation of residential land in the area between Oyama High School and Shakujii River began in the mid-2010s. The first phase of the construction started in January 2018, and it is scheduled to be completed in October 2024.

Gallery

File:Jōhoku Chūō Park 03.jpg, Tennis courts File:Jōhoku Chūō Park 02.jpg, Wooded area File:Jōhoku Chūō Park 05.jpg,

flowing along the park's south-east border File:Kurihara-Site.jpg, Kurihara Ruins File:Johoku chuo park 1989 air.jpg, An aerial photograph of the park taken in 1989

References

External links

* * {{Nerima Parks and gardens in Tokyo Nerima Itabashi 1957 establishments in Japan