Kyōiku-no-mori Park, Urban park in Ōtsuka, Japan.
Kyōiku-no-mori Park is a 21,171 m² ward-run park in Ōtsuka, Bunkyō, on the former Tokyo University of Education campus. It has a free open square, a shallow wading pool (jabujabu-ike), the Bunkyō Sports Center, and the adjoining Shunshun-en garden, a remnant of a daimyō estate.
The site was the campus of Tokyo Higher Normal School from 1903, reorganised in 1949 as Tokyo University of Education. After that university closed in 1978 and became the University of Tsukuba, Bunkyo Ward acquired part of the former grounds from the state. The ward opened Kyōiku-no-mori Park there on 13 October 1986.
The park takes its name from the former Tokyo University of Education campus on this site. Next to it stands Senshun-en, the garden of the Matsudaira residence, counted among Edo's famous gardens and known for its lesser cuckoo birds.
The park is open at all times and entry is free. It lies about three minutes on foot from Myōgadani Station on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line. Facilities include the Jiyū Hiroba open square, a jabujabu paddling pool, the Bunkyō Sports Center and the adjacent Senjun-en garden.
The garden Senjun-en, once part of the Matsudaira estate and later of Tokyo Higher Normal School, survives beside the park; in the Edo period it was famed for its hototogisu, and the name is still used for this adjacent garden.
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