Yoyogi Park

A lot of people go here but the paths are big enough where it doesnt feel too crowded and still feels peaceful somehow. I like to go here after the crowdedness of harajuku since its nearby.

It’s a nice park to relax at when you get tired of the city, people, cars, buildings, and douchbags lol There’s always something happening at Yoyogi and Summer time is full of festivals. Things that are a no-​no or that I have done and got busted for are BBQ’ing, relaxing in a Tent, SUP in the pond, DJ’ing in the park, and of course there’s more… But I’ll save that for another day lol
Oh and HARAJUKU station is the nearest station to the park.

I stopped her for a run while I was in Tokyo. It’s a decent park though nothing spectacular. The loop is around a mile and there are several paths you can take. It’s a great place for a stroll or to sit out in the sun.

YOYOGI PARK
I had done a lot of sightseeing with the roommate when I first came to Tokyo three years ago. My girlfriends have never been to Tokyo, so they had a bunch of places they wanted to see. One of them was Yoyogi Park. We decided to walk there from around the Shibuya station on Monday, April 11^th. We got there around 1:45pm.
It’s a very calm and beautiful park with a lake in the middle. Lots of people sitting on the benches by the edge, sketching or painting the scenery. It was nice to sit back and just people watch. It was a little windy at times, but we sat back by the fountain in the sun and just enjoyed the nice day.
Very chill park. I’d love to have seen it when all the cherry blossoms were in bloom. Would have been so pretty!

Since our Airbnb was right next to Yoyogi Station, Yoyogi Park was very convenient to get to for me and Stephanie S. There aren’t many things that are open early in the morning, but thankfully Yoyogi Park is!
This park is pretty big and really nice for a stroll. There are picnic areas, bike paths, and space for people to dance and perform. In the springtime, this park is a hot spot for people to enjoy the cherry blossoms. They are also known for their ginko trees, which turn the park a brilliant golden color during autumn.
Meiji Shrine, one of the most popular shrines in Tokyo, is located in this park. Get off the Harajuku station and enter Yoyogi Park, and you’ll see the entrance!
Like San Francisco, you can get swept up in the busyness of the city life in Tokyo, so it’s nice to have a beautiful park to relax at.

Great place to relax on a sunny day, very popular amongst locals. Must be breathtaking view when the sakura trees are in blosom. Hope to make it here during spring someday to see it.

A gigantic, interesting, and unique park at the heart of Tokyo!
So many kinds of people and events. Many great encounters I had there. If you go there really early in the morning. You might see famous actors and designers jogging in fashionable sports wears.

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Each city as is main park Tokyo as YOYOGI Park and it’s huge. It’s like many other think in Tokyo one of kind and photo and review can only give glimpse of what it is. He contain a tropical forest, a garden with a pound, a shrine complexe, a museum, … On weekend Tokyoites take procession of it and show you a different aspect of there complexity. It’s a must if you have more then few days in Tokyo. On my 9 days stay I have been there twice.
Je m’était promis de m’assoir sur un ban seul au milieu de Monopolis… c’est fait !!!
Comme beaucoup d’endroit à Tokyo aucun texte et aucune photo né peu donner une véritable impression de cette immense parc.
On y trouve entre autre une forest tropical, un temple prisé par les jeunes mariés (Meiji Jingu), un musée, des étangs, de grands espaces gazonés…
La fin de semaine les Tokyoites en prennent procession et on s’y repose, on y danse, on y chante, …
Si vous passez plus que 2 – 3 jours à Tokyo c’est un incontournable.
Moi au cours de mon séjour de 9 jours à Tokyo j’y suis allé 2 fois! Et j’y retournerai…
Le parc est à proximité de Harajuku, Shibuya, Shinjuku, l’hôtel de ville …
J’aime, j’aime j’aime…

On the way to Meiji Shrine we decided to stop by Yoyogi Park, and believe me, we are glad that we did. It’s a little hard to explain this place, as it’s very unlike public parks in the United States. There is truly a sense of harmony located here despite there being a lot of people.
I’m not worried about rude people or people going out of their boundaries, but it truly feels like everyone respected each other and their space here. There is a dog park, gardens, animal preserves, fountains, and so much more. It’s a decent sized park. When we discovered that we couldn’t get into the Meiji Shrine through the park, an older gentlemen literally walked us to the shrine even though it took him 15 minutes to do so. Such an amazing place and people within.
It’s gorgeous, but don’t take my word for it. Go if you’re in Tokyo.

Yoyogi park is a fine place to go when the hustle and bustle of Tokyo become too much for you. Not my favourite park in the city but one I frequent when I’m in the area. It’s quite amazing that there are parks this size scattered throughout Tokyo when in Toronto where I live they seem only able to have one kind small park amid all the bloody condos.

While traveling, most of us rely on the kindness of strangers, I know I was. On my 2011 trip to Tokyo, my friend and I survived the non-​English speaking country, by staying with some friends, who showed us such a wonderful time without the need to plan our own itinerary.
One morning, we decided to go to Yoyo Gi park alone!!! Of course we did not count on our Japanese speaking skills, since we had none, not even the few mandatory words to find our way in the city. So we started navigating our handy paper subway map and we were in luck.
After getting off at Harajuku Station on a Sunday, we strolled in and out of the fashion shops till we get to the enormous and beautiful Yoyo Gi park. It was fun to walk around watching people, joggers, cyclists, and extreme skaters.
It was truly amazing and amusing to stop at «the gallery of sunday artists» and watch street entertainers with great talent, comic dancers in their 50s fashion, and musicians jamming their music. Only in Japan you’ll find such a structured and ordered self-​expression. What a great Sunday we had!
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With all of the wonderful things I saw and ate while traveling in Japan, I have to say my day in Yoyogi Park was one of the highlights of the trip. It’s a bit like NYC’s Central Park but with a totally unique feel all its own.
The park is right off of the Harajuku station, and it’s hard to believe that just across the street from all of the trendy shops and restaurants there lies such a huge and beautiful place. It’s breathtaking from the time you enter the park under one of its grand torii, or traditional gate. You then encounter wide, quiet paths with enormous, gorgeous trees all around. Even on a hot day you’ll enjoy cool shade in this park.
From there you can choose to do any number of things including horseback riding or bike rentals. At the center of the park there is a historic shrine that’s beautiful to look at but is also totally active. The day we were there we saw a wedding procession and it was truly amazing to see with all of the lovely traditional clothes and drums!
My favorite part of the park was the area where all sorts of dance groups meet up to practice choreography or just hang out. If you’re there on a Sunday afternoon, you MUST find the Elvis dancers. They’re a group of Japanese greasers, complete with huge pompadours and customized leather outfits, that gather every week to dance to Japanese rockabilly music. They don’t collect money or put on a show for others… they just do it because they love it! It was one of the most interesting things I saw in Tokyo.
At any time of year you’re likely to find something interesting happening in or around this park, so make sure to visit it for a brief respite from Tokyo’s crazy city life!

This is a sizable and relaxing park. We found it on our walk from Harajuku to Shibuya. The scenery is nice and you’ll be able to see all sorts of people doing different activities in the vicinity. We went when a dancing festival was nearby and it made it even more interesting.

Precioso. Poder ir y escuchar el sonido de los grillos y demás insectos del… ¿parque? Yo diría bosque. Madre mía es enorme y precioso. Muy natural, nos gustó más que Ueno.

Yoyogi park is a huge park that makes you forget you are in the middle of Tokyo.
The park, located near the Harajuku station on the JR Yamanote line, is one of my favorite places in the world. You can meet your friends there and have a nice picnic or whatever you want. There are tons of people doing their «thing» whether its tossing a frisbee, salsa dancing, live art painting, sunbathing, reading, partying, etc., so it is ideal for people watching. Definitely worth stopping by if you need to break from the concrete city of Tokyo. Harajuku and Omotesando, which are other tourist «must-​see» areas, are close by so you can easily spend a fun day in the area.
On many weekends there is a large flea market going on, as well as various ethnic culture and food festivals.
One of Tokyo (Shibuya area’s) best spots.

Mañometro: «El imperio del sol naciente tú !!!»
Que alegría poder empezar a comentar todos mis recuerdos de mis viajes a Japon, y de rebote, poner los dientes largos a Merche M, con la que me voy de Honey Moon al Shipan-​go (como se le apodaba en la antigüedad, de ahí vino el Zipango, Jipango, Jipan y finalmente Japan … como te quedas?)
Decidimos con prisas el plan del domingo, teníamos en mente ir a Hakone, visitar las faldas del Fuji y subir a la zona de los cinco lagos, sin embargo, amaneció un día de perros, no demasiado campestre y tuvimos que re-​planificar a marchas forzadas.
Como era Nichijoubi (domingo) y solían juntarse todos los cosplayers en el puente de Harajuku, nos decidimos a hacer la ruta Takeshita-​Omotesando-​Harajuku-​Yoyogi y he de reconocer que fue un día para no olvidar.
Para la mayoría de la gente, el parque de Yoyogi es el pulmón de la metrópolis-​tipo, un parque enoooorme como podría ser Retiro para Madrid o Hyde Park para Londres … pero no, la gente se equivoca, Yoyogi es algo mas.
Dispones de un ambiente en el que perderte, en el que sumergirte, y en que empaparte del embrujo de Japón, porque todo, absolutamente todo esta cuidado al detalle, ni un solo papel fuera de sitio, ni una sola rama sin cortar, todo es sencillamente PERFECTO, para colmo y si te aguantan las piernas, dentro puedes visitar el Meiji Shrine (
) donde si acudes un domingo posiblemente te encontrarás con alguna boda … toda una experiencia.
Mención aparte la koban (policía) del parque que después de ver como buscaba una papelera como un desesperado para tirar el envoltorio de un perrito caliente (la ausencia de papeleras en Tokyo es digno de un articulo entero) decidieron acercarse a mi para que gustosamente les diera el papel (ya lo tiraremos nosotros, me dijeron en un ingles muy oxford)
Si me dierais a elegir una fecha para visitarlo, la ultima semana de Marzo-​Abril, coincidiendo con el Hanami (florecimiento de Sakura-​Cerezo) donde pasear mientras «nievan» petalos blancos es sencillamente espectacular.
Los domingos y a la izquierda del puente de la estación de Harajuku podrás encontrar los «rockabilis» digamos el equivalente «chungo» al japones medio, donde como siempre en ese país cogen una afición y la llevan al extremo !!
Para muestra un botón tanto del cosplay como del rock-​moment !!
PD: Creo que desde 2012 los cosplayers no se juntan en el puente, que si los rockabilis.

Though it is located very close to major areas like Shibuya and Shinjuku, it is a large and wonderful park.
Compared with Ueno Park, my impression of this park is more like ‘a garden’. You can find places to sit more easily than in Ueno Park too.
Around the park there are some ‘hidden’ cafés so it may be fun to look for them.

Yoyogi park is one of the most famous and popular and greatest park in Tokyo. You cannot believe that we have this huge space in the center of Tokyo, between Shibuya and Shinjuku. There are some festival and events all the year around. On the events day, the park must be crowded from morning to evening. I sometimes see young people playing happily late at night, like 1 or 2 am! They shout and singing loudly and are drunk and seem having great fun. On the other hands, we can sometimes see lovey couples sit on benches tie their hands and talking quietly. You can see this park is also good place for dating. This park is very big so please be careful not to loss. I do not think there are enough marks in this park, so once you lost where you are now it is quite difficult to get back to your friends place. I often get lost and call my friend for help, but I cannot explain my place so there is no wish she can find me out. I often get lost when I go to the bathroom alone. If you are not good at direction, I recommend you to be with someone all the time before you get used to it. I experienced the fear of being alone in a big dark park without knowing where I should go to. I do not want anyone to feel this terror. If you asked someone for help, nobody knows where they are and where you want to go.