Ikuta Ryokuchi Park

Ikuta Ryokuchi Park (生田緑地, Ikuta Ryokuchi) is a park in Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Among other features, it has an observation platform at the top of Mt. Masugata, the Japan Open-Air Folk Museum with authentic traditional houses, the Kawasaki Municipal Science Museum with a planetarium, the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, a traditional craft center, and a large rose garden open to the public in the spring and autumn.

The entrance is a fifteen-minute walk from Mukōgaoka-Yūen Station on the Odakyu Odawara Line.

Traditional houses at Nihon Minka-en

Interior of the Kitamura house at Nihon Minka-en

Fauna

Animals

• Japanese raccoon dog

Wild birds

The park contains a bird reserve and a wide variety of birds can be seen in the park.

• Eurasian tree sparrow
• Japanese tit
• Japanese bush warbler
• Japanese white-eye
• Varied tit
• Long-tailed tit
• Japanese pygmy woodpecker
• White-cheeked starling
• Brown-eared bulbul
• Oriental turtle dove
• Azure-winged magpie
• Common kingfisher
• Jungle crow
• Carrion crow

Winter birds

• Hawfinch
• Dusky thrush
• Red-flanked bluetail
• Eurasian jay

Summer birds

• Black-faced bunting

External links

• Ikuta Ryokuchi Park (in English/Japanese)
• Kawasaki City Nihon Minka-en (in English Archived 2020-02-16 at the Wayback Machine/Japanese)
• Ikuta Green Park (old page in English)
• Taro Okamoto Museum of Art