Rinshi-no-mori Park, Metropolitan park in Meguro and Shinagawa, Japan.
Rinshi-no-mori Park is a green space in Meguro that features forested areas crossed by walking paths and open spaces. The layout combines wooded sections with clearings designed for rest and movement.
The site began in 1900 as the Meguro Test Nursery, when trees from a forestry research station in Nishigahara were moved here. It became the Forestry Experiment Station in 1905 and the Forestry Experiment Station (Ringyō Shikenjō) in 1910. The station moved to Tsukuba in 1978, and the grounds opened as a metropolitan park on 1 June 1989.
The name comes from ringyo shikenba, the forestry experiment station that stood here until 1978. A small north-south valley in the centre survives from the Shingawa canal that once fed the Rakanji river, and a water wheel recalling it was installed, later removed. Early-morning joggers, walkers and radio-calisthenics groups use the grounds daily.
The park sits within walking distance of two stations on the Tokyu Meguro Line, making it easy to reach from different directions. The paths are straightforward for casual strolls through the grounds.
The butterfly on the old Chinese cork oaks is the Mizuiro-onaga-shijimi (Antigius attilia), rare in the wild within Tokyo's wards. In 1968, when the site was still a forestry station, collector Keiji Kojima found many rhinoceros and sawtooth stag beetles here, and took a giant stag beetle from a tree hollow in a shirakashi oak near today's Kunugi Gate; that oak still stands.
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