Utsubo Park
Long, narrow city park shaped by a former WWII airfield runway, with a rose garden and tennis courts.
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This guide to Utsubo Park in Osaka opens with a puzzle: why is this stretch of parkland almost eight hundred meters long, dead straight, and shaped exactly like a runway. It traces the ground's earlier life as one of Osaka's busiest fish markets, and the wartime bombing that leveled the district. Rows of zelkova trees and tennis courts now line the long, straight paths that keep the old shape underfoot.
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