Yoyogi Park

This guide to Yoyogi Park traces the ground's transformation from an off-limits American enclave to one of Tokyo's largest green spaces. After World War Two, occupation forces built Washington Heights here, housing for American Air Force families that Japanese citizens couldn't enter for nearly two decades, before it became the Olympic Village in 1964. Look for the single house still standing near the park's edge, kept as a memorial to the Dutch team that once lived there.