Shimo-fukushima Park is a public, urban park

Urban park

An urban park, is also known as a municipal park or a public park, public open space or municipal gardens , is a park in cities and other incorporated places to offer recreation and green space to residents of, and visitors to, the municipality...

, situated at 4 chōme Fukushima in Fukushima-ku, Osaka

Fukushima-ku, Osaka

is one of 24 wards of Osaka city, Japan.The ward is primarily a residential quarter, but has some office buildings and a commercial district, as well as factories and wholesale businesses....

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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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The park was constructed at the former spinning

Spinning (textiles)

Spinning is a major industry. It is part of the textile manufacturing process where three types of fibre are converted into yarn, then fabric, then textiles. The textiles are then fabricated into clothes or other artifacts. There are three industrial processes available to spin yarn, and a...

 factory of Dai-Nihon Spinning Company (current company is Unitika, Ltd.), and largest in Fukushima ward. In the park, spinning factory's old brick wall constructed around 1894 is still remained, which stops the fire spread of air raid

Strategic bombing

Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in a total war with the goal of defeating an enemy nation-state by destroying its economic ability and public will to wage war rather than destroying its land or naval forces...

 at the World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

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The legend says that here is a cradle place of Wisteria floribunda

Wisteria floribunda

Wisteria floribunda, the Japanese wisteria, is a woody liana of the Wisteria family. It was brought from Japan to the United States in 1860 by George Rogers Hall. Since then, it has become one of the most highly romanticized flowering garden plants...

 (Japanese:Noda-Fuji), some Wisteria floribunda is cultivated even today in the park. Fuji-An garden (Japanese Fuji-An no Niwa) where Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

was a daimyo warrior, general and politician of the Sengoku period. He unified the political factions of Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, named after Hideyoshi's castle...

 and Ashikaga Yoshiakira

Ashikaga Yoshiakira

was the 2nd shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1358 to 1367 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshiakira was the son of the founder and first shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji....

 visited, is also restored in the park.

At 2001, public pool and training centre is renewed and it is operated by Konami Sports Co.Ltd. recent years.

Facilities

• Public pool and training centre http://www.sports.city.osaka.jp/sports/sa/tb/i/2/0/0/0/15/20530004/d.html : admission required
• Play ground (mainly for amateur baseball)http://www.sports.city.osaka.jp/sports/sa/tb/i/2/0/0/53/0/20530002/d.html : admission required
• Fuji-An garden
• Parking lot : charged

Access

The nearest train station is on the Keihan Nakanoshima Line

Keihan Nakanoshima Line

The is a railway line operated by the Keihan Electric Railway in Osaka, Japan. It opened on October 19, 2008.-Services:The following services operate on the Nakanoshima Line, through-running to/from the Keihan Main Line...

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External links

• Official page of Shimo-fukushima park http://www.ocsga.or.jp/osakapark/hfm_park/11tokusyoku/flower03.htm (Japanese language)