Tama Urban Monorail Keio- Horinouchi Oyamada Odakyu tama line Keio line, 14 Odakyu line Karakida Tama-Center Keio

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Tamakyuryo Hospital

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Oyamada Park Daisenji Shibamizo Administrator ■ Metropolitan Park Association Machida avenue avenue N Zushi Location Shimo-Oyamada-machi, Kami-Oyamada-machi, Machida City Zuhiohashi ● bridge ●Contact Information Oyamada Park Administration Office tel: 042-797-8968 (361-10 Shimo-Oyamada-machi, Machida-shi 194-0202 ●Transport 12-minute walk from Ogibashi bus stop on the Keio Bus for Nichidai-Sanko from Tama Center (Keio- line, Odakyu-Tama line, Tama Urban Monorail). 12-minute walk from Daisenji bus stop on Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu Bus for Oyamada from Machida (JR , Odakyu line). 12-minute walk from Ogibashi bus stop on Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu Bus for Tama-Kyuryo-Byoin from Machida (JR Yokohama line,Odakyu line). Free parking available.

Oyamada Park in northwest Machida City is located in a green hilly area adjacent to . Currently, about part of the 146 Exercise field/lookout field planned hectares of park is open. Climb the hill and suddenlya field opens before you with the sky The park is great for taking a stroll, sports, and observing nature. It seeming to float above the woods in the distance. It is known as the has groves of trees as well as an open grassy field where one can play remnants of a farm from the Medieval period. The Tanzawa Moun- ball and a waterfront that is home to dragonflies and other creatures. tain Range and Mount Fuji can be viewed from the lookout field. In the park surroundings, too, the pastoral landscape all around cre- ates an atmosphere befitting the Tama hills. That makes the park great There are also a small baseball field (fee required) and exercise field for hiking and other excursions. here.

Lookout field Playground Equipment & Exercise Square Yamanaka parkannex This park has an observation area offering good views of the wild woodlands, and a boardwalk that leads through a rich green forest to Karakida station on the Odakyu Tama line. Oyamada Park Bamboo Forest Oyamada valley Okubo park annex A holding pond, upper pond, lower pond, and regulat ing pond are This part of the park situated in the long narrow valley surrounded by groves of trees; and a boardwalk runs along the valley. Various plants can be seen has a dragonfly throughout the four seasons. pond and Japanese pampas grass field; Umekikubo and agricultural park annex fields and farm- The ridgeline path houses dotting the through groves of trees slope can be seen meets the open valleyside from the ridge. Ya- path with rice paddies. manohata bus stop Okubo park annex dragonfly pond Highlights along the way is about a ten-min- include the Floating Heart pond where various crea- ute walk to the southwest of the pond. tures play, and a suspend- ed bridge over the valley. Floating heart pond

Opened / June 1, 1990 Area / 444,364.04 m2 Main plants / Nettle tree, sawtooth oak, konara oak, Chinese evergreen oak, Golden orchid, Cephalanthera erecta, Japanese dandelion, Japanese silver grass Facilities / Small baseball field (fee required), exercise field, lookout field, boardwalk, pond, suspension bridge, wooden playground equipment 41 Odakyu- Tama line Oyamada Karakida

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Otuma Welfare Center Women’s Tama Turumaki 5-chome University Waste Disposal Tama City Integrated Plant Welfare Office International Oyamada Park Golf Course Park Entrance Gas tank Tama City Yamanaka park annex Convenience store

Machida City

Tama-Kyuryo byoin Asaza pond

Dragony Caution Paddy

High-Voltage line pond park annex Umegikubo eld Shimo-Oyamada

annex Okubo park Dead end

Daisenji temple Suspension High-Voltage line bridge Hakusan shrine

Regulating pond Ogibashi

river souece to Tsurumigawa Parking lot No.2 Main garden

Yamanohashi Upper pond Of ce Parking lot No.1 Holding Lawer pond Daisenji pond Lookout eld Oyamada valley Exercise eld

Sakuradai Complex to Oyamada- Small baseball eld

Sakurabashi (Bound for Shizuoka) Parking lot 0m 100m 200m South Entrance Sakurabashi (Bound for Shin-Shimizu) to Zushi ohashi Nichidai-Sanko to Zushi

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