Shakujii Park

Shakujii Park is a public park in the Japanese town of Shakujii, in Tokyo's Nerima ward. It is one of the larger parks in the metropolis. As of April 2006, the site is managed directly by the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association, an arrangement which ended in March 2011.The park contains within it two ponds, Sanpō-ji Pond and Shakujii Pond, several small Shintō shrines, and the remains of Shakujii castle. The Shakujii River runs east-west a short ways south of the park. The ponds are said to have formed naturally from the gushing up of underground water from the Musashino-dai Pond a short distance away. Over the years, however, the ponds have slowly shrunk, and so, in order to preserve the park's scenery and its recreational use, manmade systems have been installed to pump water into the ponds.