Fukakita Park, Public park in Daito, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Fukakita Park is a large public park in Daitō, Osaka, featuring tennis courts, soccer fields, and baseball diamonds alongside various play equipment. The grounds also include barbecue areas and designated spaces for dogs.
The park was designed as a flood control facility to temporarily hold excess water during heavy rainfall. This function protects residential areas nearby from flooding damage.
The park's three flood-control zones shape its cultural life: Zone A by the Neyagawa holds Fukano Pond, a wildlife protection area where herons and ducks are watched and fishing is banned, while the southern reservoir allows fishing. Zone B, in Neyagawa, has a lawn, a garden of about 25 cherry varieties among some 1,100 trees park-wide, and a dinosaur plaza. Zone C, by the Osaka Outer Loop Road, holds the baseball ground, tennis courts and dog run.
Fukakita Park is reached from the Daito-minami Yosuichi-higashi or Kawakita-higashi intersections of National Route 170 (Osaka Gaikan Route), or by heading east from the Ebata intersection on Osaka Prefectural Route 21. The first and second car parks together hold 642 vehicles and charge a fee. The nearest stations are Nozaki and Shijonawate on the JR Gakkentoshi Line, about 15 minutes on foot.
The park doubles as a flood-control reservoir: its three zones hold a combined 1.46 million cubic metres of water, about 16 Osaka Maru Building volumes. It was first flooded in August 1982, and by January 2019 water had been let in 19 times, reaching zone C in 1999 and 2004. Water drains through the Neyagawa sluice gate in the southwest.
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