Tsuruma Park
Park · Nagoya-shi ·
Historic park with cherry blossoms, ponds, tennis courts, gardens
Historic park with cherry blossoms, ponds, tennis courts, gardens
"Growing up in Nagoya, my mother would sometimes bring us to Tsuruma Park after school to let us run free; the playground, fringed by dark trees that cast shade on the Showa-era slides, always felt a little hidden, a separate place where only mothers and children could go. Breaking through that quiet barrier, the Yakult lady would sail up on her bicycle with a cool-blue cooler box on the back, and a discernible excitement would descend over the crowd of kids as we rushed like hungry pigeons to buy the sweet yogurt drinks she pulled from the cooler; her neat twist of the waist and flip of the latch, my mother pressing a few coins into her palm, and the bicycle, bonnet, and the drink’s sweet tang all felt like signals that the world around me was safe and sensible, even as I briefly wondered whether she or my mother was taking care of us." - Nina Li Coomes
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