Mitsuike Park, Urban park in Tsurumi-ku, Japan

Mitsuike Park is a prefectural urban park in Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, built around three ponds named Ue-no-ike, Naka-no-ike and Shimo-no-ike. More than 1,000 cherry trees of 35 varieties grow on the grounds, about 70 percent of them Somei-yoshino. It also holds a soft baseball field, tennis courts, a pool and a Korean garden of 5,000 square metres.

The park was established in April 1957, transforming this Yokohama area into a protected recreation space. Since then it has served local residents as a key place for outdoor leisure.

The Korean Garden was built to mark the 1990 friendship agreement between Kanagawa Prefecture and Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It follows the residential style of Joseon-era yangban scholars, and its stone groupings express the three-talents idea: one stone for earth, two for heaven, three for people. A square pond with a round island stands for earth and heaven, a wish for descendants' prosperity.

The park is best reached by bus - routes 6, 67, and 104 depart from JR Tsurumi Station West Exit to the Mitsuike-Koen-Kitamon stop. The pathways are well maintained and accessible for visitors of varying mobility levels.

The park's three ponds were dug out and maintained in 1787 as reservoirs for irrigation water. A stone monument erected in 1843, the Fujiwara Masuyoshi Kahi, carries a waka poem by the late-Edo shogunate retainer Okumura Masuyoshi and is registered as a Yokohama regional cultural property. A solitary round burial mound, the Mitsuike Kofun, also stands on a hill inside the grounds.