also ''Wakasu Island'', is an island located in Koto, Tokyo. It is located south of

Shin-Kiba is an area of Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It is located north of Wakasu, east of Tatsumi, south of Yumenoshima, and west of the Arakawa River. It is built on reclaimed land. Etymology The name "Shinkiba" means "New Lumberyard", and is taken from the a ...

and is connected to a new unnamed island to the south by the

Tokyo Gate Bridge is a truss cantilever bridge across Tokyo Bay in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It opened on 12 February 2012 with an estimated total construction cost of for the Stage II section of highway including the bridge.Official "flyer" shows Stage II includin ...

. The place was known connected with the murder of

Junko Furuta was a Japanese high school student who was abducted, raped, tortured and then subsequently murdered. Her case was called the , due to her body being discovered in a concrete drum. The abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers (Hiros ...

, a high school student whose body was found there dumped in barrel and completely concreted after four teenage boys, led by Hiroshi Miyano, killing her at their house in Ayase, Adachi.

Details

Wakasu, like many other areas of Tokyo, is

reclaimed land Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new Terrestrial ecoregion, land from oceans, list of seas, seas, Stream bed, riverbeds or lak ...

. Save for the camping ground, Wakasu was constructed on a base of

incinerator bottom ash Incinerator bottom ash (IBA) is a form of ash produced in incineration facilities. This material is discharged from the moving grate of municipal solid waste incinerators. Once IBA is processed by removing contaminants, it can be used as an aggrega ...

remains from garbage, a form of land reclamation common in Japan. Roughly half of the island is an industrial zone, while the other half contains the Wakasu Seaside Park, Wakasu Golf Course, and a popular camping ground. There is also a large wind turbine located nearby the golf course. The 18-hole golf course and the campground attract many people from all over Tokyo. Wakasu was planned to be the venue for

sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

events at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

, but it is planned that the yachting will take place in Enoshima, Kanagawa Prefecture. Instead it will host golf moved from Kasumigaseki, Saitama as the planned venue. Wakasu is the location near where the body of

, the victim of the "1989 concrete-encased high school girl murder case", was discovered after her murder.

Schools

Koto Ward Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Minamisuna Elementary School (南砂小学校) is the zoned public elementary school for Wakasu. Minamisuna Junior High School (南砂中学校) is the zoned public junior high school for Wakasu.

References

External links

Website of Wakasu Seaside Park

Reference and directions to the golf course in Continental Magazine Online

Review of the golf course in ''Golf in Japan''
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