Momiji 2

The park was really nice. I haven’t seen anything like it in Japan yet, it was like an American park. There were BBQ pits where the group baked sweet potatoes, play area for kids (and Scott), a large slide, picnic benches, and a huge grassy area with a fountain and small stream running through the middle. As you know, Japan has limited space, so this park is unusual. Most of the parks I see here in Wakayama City are the size of a parking space- an American parking space, so that's a tad bigger. I took lots of pictures, bought a cheap bag of mikans (Japanese oranges), had lunch, and a hot sweet potato. It wasn’t much of a hike, as we only walked from the train station to the shrine, to Lawson’s, to the park, and back to the train. It was all flat and on paved streets. But the scenery was nice. Wakayama is not a big city, but it is nice to have a small escape out to the countryside.
Oh, and some of these pictures are from the walk to the park, not at the park.