 Image search results - "takebayashi" |
Entrance to the bamboo grove at Takebayashi Park. 竹林公園
|
|
Higashikurume's farming homes used to each have a bamboo grove.
|
|
However, due to urban development, the bamboo groves were fast disappearing. So from 1974, the city decided to preserve this one bamboo grove.
|
|
A nice short trail goes through the bamboo forest.
|
|
|
|
Bamboo forest, Higashikurume, Tokyo
|
|
|
|
|
|
In the bamboo forest is one of Tokyo's 57 Famous Natural Springs.
|
|
One of Tokyo's 57 Famous Natural Springs 竹林公園・東京の名湧水５７選
|
|
Clear water, but I could not find any spot where the water was gushing out.
|
|
|
|
