Yoyogi Park, Metropolitan park in Shibuya-ku, Japan.
Yoyogi Park is an urban park in Harajuku, Shibuya, offering broad lawns, several ponds, wooded sections, and public sports facilities. Bike paths run through the grounds and connect the different sections to one another.
The grounds first served as a military parade area and were later used by US forces as the residential complex Washington Heights. The facilities were converted for the 1964 Summer Games Olympic village and afterward handed over to the public as a park.
On Sundays the park becomes a gathering place for Japanese rock music fans, jugglers, comedians, cosplayers and martial arts clubs. In spring, thousands of visitors come for hanami, the cherry-blossom viewing picnics. The park is named after the Yoyogi area of Shibuya, and unlike neighbouring Meiji Shrine it has no closing time, so it can be entered at any hour.
The park sits a five-minute walk from Harajuku Station and opens daily with no admission charge. Restrooms, parking spaces, and bicycle rental are available on site.
Beneath the lawns of the southern section lie the Chiyoda Line's stabling tracks, where up to 80 train cars can be parked. Ventilation shafts poke through the park, and on quiet paths you can hear trains running underground. An emergency exit from the depot also surfaces here.
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