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Shiba Park is one of Japan’s oldest parks. In 1873, a Daijo-kan proclamation deemed five locations in Ueno, Asakusa, Fukagawa, Asukayama, and Shiba to be Japan’s first parks, and these were the pioneers of subsequent park development. Shiba Park was initially a large park that contained the grounds of Zojo-ji Temple, but the temple grounds were removed from the park in order to separate church and state after the Second World War, creating the ring-shaped park of today.
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As is befitting of an old park with a long history, there are large trees here and there such as Camphor trees, Japanese zelkova, and Ginkgo biloba.
Additionally, Shiba Park today contains a baseball field and tennis courts, but in 1902 it was equipped with exercise equipment and thereby became the first of Tokyo’s parks to have athletic facilities.
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