Hamakita Park
is really Yamashita Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
Ijincho's biggest park, a waterfront promenade with rose gardens, wagon stalls and the Dragon Kart garage, with an old ocean liner moored alongside. The game's wiki says it is based on Yamashita Park, and the Marine Tower and the Hikawa Maru both appear in it.
The real place
Yamashita Park opened in 1930 on land reclaimed with rubble from the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. The liner Hikawa Maru, launched in 1929, is moored at its edge as a museum ship, and the statue in the central fountain, the Guardian of Water, was a gift from Yokohama's sister city San Diego.
Visiting
The rose gardens are at their best in May and October. You can go aboard the Hikawa Maru, and the Marine Tower across the road has an observation deck over the harbour.
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