A park with green walkways, tennis courts, playgrounds, teahouses, and a museum displaying vintage aircraft.
Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park is the birthplace of Japan Airlines. After the war, part of the US military base was requisitioned and returned in 1971, and a large park of about 50 hectares was established on this basis. In addition to the Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Museum, where you can learn about the structure of aircraft, there are sports facilities such as artificial turf fields, tennis courts, and baseball fields, as well as outdoor stages and tea rooms, etc. A Japanese garden that serves as a communication base.
The east side of the park faces the Saitama Fujimino Tokorozawa Line on Saitama Prefectural Route 56, and the west side faces the Seibu Shinjuku Line. The site on the west side is once divided by the road that runs in front of the station’s east exit, but is connected overhead by a connecting road (sidewalk). National Route 463 runs along the south side, and there is a signboard explaining “the longest row of zelkova trees in Japan”. On the north side of the park are the city hall and the government offices of the Namiki area of Tokorozawa City. The Tokyo Air Traffic Control Department (Tokyo Control), concert halls and other complex cultural facilities, and the Tokorozawa Civic Cultural Center Muse are adjacent to the park.
Since the opening of the park, because it is relatively close to Oizumi Toei Studio in Nerima District, whether it is from the Tokorozawa IC of the Kan-Etsu Expressway or the lower road. The park is often used for location filming of the company’s TV series “Super Sentai”, “Metal Hero” series, Toei Fuji comedy series, etc.
Now, in the park there are various facilities such as the Museum of the Birthplace of Aviation, the Tokorozawa Municipal Library, a Japanese garden, a tea room “Saisho-tei”, an open-air stage, tennis courts, baseball fields, and a dog-walking area, etc.
There is also a jogging field (1.95 km) on the sidewalks in the park. The asphalt is carpeted with a special red pavement that relieves the burden on the knees, and footlights are also lit at night.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympic torch relay, July 6th, is the first day of the torch relay to Saitama Prefecture. This has become the celebration venue for the final station of Saitama Prefecture, and various activities have been held in the park. Saitama Prefecture publicly recruited 65 torchbearers, and a total of 14,113 people signed
