青葉山ろく公園, Urban park at the foot of Mount Aoba in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Aobayama Sanroku Park is an urban general park laid out on the lower slopes of Mount Aobayama in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture. The mountain, also called Wakasa Fuji, is the setting for camping grounds, athletic facilities, a putting golf course, ground golf and outdoor study sessions, and the park also holds a pottery workshop. Families fill it with picnics on holidays.
The park was developed by Maizuru City as a general urban park on the slopes of Mount Aoba, the peak also called Wakasa Fuji. In the 2010s Kyoto Prefecture considered part of the site, 2.1 hectares, for a ball-sports stadium, but the stadium was eventually built in Kameoka instead.
The park's pottery workshop lets visitors try the potter's wheel and hand-building; clay is charged separately from the entry fee. The site also has putting golf and ground golf courses, and on holidays families come for picnics on the slopes of Mount Aoba, known as Wakasa Fuji.
The park is open from 9:00 to 17:00 and closes the day after public holidays and over the New Year period. The putting golf course operates December to March and the ceramics workshop closes Mondays, or two days later when Monday is a holiday. From JR Matsuo-dera Station on the Obama Line it is a 20-minute walk; by bus, get off at Maizuru Kosen and walk about 5 minutes.
Maizuru proposed a 2.1-hectare part of the park as the site for Kyoto Prefecture's planned ball-sports stadium, but the stadium was ultimately built in Kameoka as Sanga Stadium by KYOCERA. The park lies at the foot of Mount Aoba, also called Wakasa Fuji.
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