Showa Kinen

Today we went off base and found a wonderful park which I am sure will be the sight of many more family picnics with wonderful places to explore.  The kids loved it and so did I!
The Showa Memorial Park, also known simply as Tachikawa Park has 11 km of bike paths, beautiful grounds, nature information, marvelous play areas, tea houses, shrines, and a wonderful water park.
It used to be a Japanese Air Force base interestingly enough.
I am thrilled that this park is only about 10 min from Yokota...can't wait to go back!

                                          These floating 'hammocks' were a huge hit!

                                         These roller slides are everywhere here in Japan, I love em too!

                                          Dragon park, amazing mosaic details on each

                                          cooling off.........

                                          The bathrooms, take your shoes off!  Slippers were provided on the green mat

                                          Memorial garden

                                          Feeding the koi fish from our paddleboat, they swarmed our boat...fought with
                                          the ducks for a share