From Mukaiyama Ryokuchi Park to Miyuki Park

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Distance: 5.58 mi
Elevation gain: 105 ft
Technical difficulty: Easy
Elevation loss: 105 ft
Max elevation: 91 ft
TrailRank: 54
Min elevation: 23 ft
Trail type: One Way

Coordinates: 162
Uploaded: February 9, 2019

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near Toyohashi, Aichi (Japan)

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Itinerary description

Visited 2017.10.09. When you travel with Shinkansen (Bullet Train) Super Express from Tokyo to Kyoto, for instance you will see a nice park when you approach to Toyohashi. This is Miyuki Park and it is truly a nice park as you might have expected from the train window.
To get to the park, however, may not seem easy. If you are brisk walker it is not an issue. I suggest you come to Mukaiyama Ryokuchi Park first. There is a walking course called Kenkonomichi starting from this park.
Both Mukaiyama Park and Miyuki Park are one of the most favored urban parks in Toyohashi and they are about an half hour walk away from each other. Walkers and joggers often get from one park to the other.

Waypoints

Mukaiyama Ryokuchi Park: Kenko-no-Michi zero point

Mukaiyama Ryokuchi Park is best known by one of the most popular cherry viewing places in Toyohashi and its plum garden is well-known, too. The park's unmistakable feature is the huge pond O-ike originally built as a dike. O-ike pond is home to a wide variety of migratory birds, ducks, ibises, grey herons and cormorants. The zero point of Kenkonomichi linking Miyuki Park and back is near the western edge of Oikebashi Bridge.

Oike-bashi Bridge

This bridge is a nice bridge to view the pond and the birds coming by.

Viewing the Pond and the Hills

This resting gazebo is a perfect place to take the photo of the pond and the hills dividing Aichi and Shizuoka Prefectures.

Kenkonomichi #22 Point

After getting to Miyuki Park, Kenkonomichi trail comes back to this park and ends at the zero point. This is the last point before going back to zero mark. This time, however, I walked eastward to get to Miyuki Park

Turn Right to get to Miyuki Park from there

It turned out later that the route I took had already been away from Kenkonomichi trail. This narrow road is surely one of the ways to get to the park.

Tricky Intersection

This is one of the trickiest parts in this trail. If you go straight from there it will be nearly dead with T intersection. The right way is to turn rightward along with the broader road.

Chosan-ike Pond

Chosan-ike occupies the large part of Miyuki Park, 12.8 hectares in area. Walking around the pond is a nice way to explore the park. When you enter the park you will see the children's park with various kinds of play sets. When you go past the area you will soon find the pathway to the pond.

Viewing Chosan-ike #1

Now at the shore of the pond. If you look at the right side you will find a fancy bridge called Kofukubashi (The Bridge of Happiness). looking at the other side you will find an islet with dense woods and at the far left corner you will see the ray of rocks arranged just like those in Japanese landscape gardens.

Viewing Chosan-ike #2

This is said to be the place where you can view the sun setting under the bridge.

Closer look at the array of rocks

These array of rocks are called Okiichi (stones placed in particular manner). Also a term in Tea Garden.

Children's Playground

While the children's playground at the northwestern park is a typical "jidokoen" with various kinds of play sets in a square, this playground has more space and makes you feel more at ease. It is close to the parking space for the convenience of people outside the city boundary. It is a great place to start strolling this huge park.

Lawn Field with Cherry Trees

This lawn area is nice place for family picnic particularly when the cherry blossom viewing season in early April.

Bird-watching Spot

This birding spot is to view an inlet home to cormorants.

Viewing the Islet

The Islet, Nakanoshima, is home to cormorants, ibises and grey herons.

Kofukubashi Bridge

This is an iconic bridge that makes this park famous outside the Toyohashi residents. When I visited this park in October 2017, however, the bridge was closed for restoration. The sign said it would be finished by next spring. Sigh.

Viewing the Bridge

So I had to take the photo of the bridge nearby.

Viewing the Waterwheel

This waterwheel in the islet is another iconic item of this park.

Park Guidemap

Miyuki Park is one of the few large parks in Toyohashi that has the comprehensive info map. This is one of them.

Bird-watching Point

The park has some birding spots and this is one of them.

Viewing the Bridge and the hills behind

This is the place where you can take the photo of Kofukubashi Bridge, the waterwheel island and the hills as its backdrop. The hills you see is called Yumihari mountains the mountain ranges made up of chert rocks.

Canal

This huge waterway monument is called Canal and one of the iconic features of this park. Today water-play is not allowed possibly because of hygienic issue but some children care less.

Lawn Field #2

The lawn area near the Canal is the place where I found it relaxing and wanted to rest and sit for a while. Nice place for family picnic for sure.

Closer Look at the Waterwheel

This waterwheel is not running. It is just for being stationary object.

Back on track

After strolling at the western shore of the pond I started going back to the main track of the park.

Viewing Clock Tower

This clock tower is located near the western end of the Kofukubashi Bridge.

Back to the shore near the array of stones

At the northern shore of the pond near the children's playground, you can find the uniquely lined rocks somewhat like those in Japanese landscape gardens. It is one of the spots for the photos. From this point viewing the array of rocks I walked nearby the huge parking space and went toward the north exit of the park.