琴林公園, Forest park in Sanuki, Japan.
Kinrin Park is a forest park along the coast covering approximately 9 hectares with extensive pine woodlands throughout. The park stretches along a light sand beach and provides different areas for exploration and rest.
Monks from Jōraku-ji planted pines here during the Muromachi period as a windbreak, giving rise to the grove of some 3,000 pines, including trees now aged around 600 years. The site became a prefectural park on 24 August 1915 and was designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty in 1939, a status removed on 23 January 1956; it was made a national park on 1 May 1956.
The name refers to the sound of wind moving through pine trees, which resembles notes from traditional Japanese string instruments. Visitors can still experience this natural soundscape while walking through the groves.
The park lies in Tsuda, Sanuki, about ten minutes on foot from JR Sanuki-Tsuda Station on the Kotoku Line. By car, leave the Takamatsu Expressway at Tsuda-Kanagawa Interchange, take Route 37 to Route 11 toward Tokushima for four kilometres. Parking holds 300 cars, mostly free. Swimming runs early July to late August; barbecues, fireworks and marine sports are banned.
At least four Japanese films were shot here: Haha Musume Junrei Nagare no Hana (1956, Nikkatsu, starring Ruriko Asaoka), Shin Kitsune to Tanuki (1962, Takarazuka Eiga, starring Junzaburo Ban), Tekkaba Yaburi (1964, Nikkatsu, starring Yujiro Ishihara) and Arashi no Owarijo (1968, Nikkatsu, starring Akira Kobayashi).
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