Gyōda Park, Urban park in Gyōda, Japan
Gyōda Park is a prefectural urban park in Gyōda, Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, split by a central boulevard into an east and a west section linked by a pedestrian bridge. The east side holds lawns, an event plaza, a cycling road of 936 m and a running course of about 1 km; the west side has a Japanese garden and a canal. A circular road rings the grounds.
The park occupies part of the former Imperial Japanese Navy radio transmitting station at Funabashi, a roughly 53-hectare site seized by the U.S. military after World War II and returned to Japan in 1966. Of that land, 11.9 hectares was lent free of charge to Chiba Prefecture and developed as an urban park, which opened on 5 October 1971.
The park's name comes from the Gyōda district of Funabashi, and its grounds host the annual Gyōda Park Festival, a barbecue garden, flea markets and various classes. A circular road rings the site, a shape clearly visible on aerial photographs and maps. The east and west halves are joined by a pedestrian footbridge over the central boulevard.
The park lies in Funabashi, Chiba, about 2.2 km west of Funabashi Station, and is split by a central boulevard into east and west halves joined by a pedestrian footbridge. Access is from the Keisei Bus "Gyōda Danchi" stop or the Keisei Transit Bus "Suwa Jinja" stop, each about five minutes on foot. The east side has a 936 m cycling loop and a roughly 1 km running course around the lawn.
The park's outline is a near-perfect circle formed by a ring road, a shape clearly visible in aerial photographs and on maps. The site was carved from the former Imperial Japanese Navy radio transmitting station at Funabashi, returned by the US military in 1966, of which 11.9 of 53 hectares became the park.
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