Tachikawa in Summer: Things to Do, Water Play and Heat Tips Guide

Showa Kinen Park in the morning: the water lilies close in the afternoon

From April to September, the park is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and until 6 p.m. on weekends and holidays only. If you are walking in midsummer, go in as soon as it opens. The heat is not the only reason.

The flower calendar on the official website introduces the summer flowers like this. Water lilies bloom from early May to mid-July in the iris paddy of the Flowering Tree Garden. They are easily confused with lotuses, but water-lily leaves have a notch cut into them. And because both close their flowers in the afternoon, viewing in the morning is recommended. The flowers retreat from the heat before you do. A human who wanders in lazily after noon will not be granted an audience with the water lilies.

Lotuses bloom from mid-June to mid-July, in the pond at Komorebi Village and in pots set out in Sazanami Plaza. According to the official description, the pots displayed at Sazanami Plaza in peak season are varieties that had been held by a graduate school of the University of Tokyo and are being preserved by splitting them among several places. Varieties a university graduate school once held, now protected in part by a national park and blooming in a summer plaza. Most people who come to see the flowers will walk past without knowing that history. Knowing it may not change how the flowers look. But I prefer flowers I have seen after hearing a story like that.

From early to late July, large lilies bloom on Burabura Slope to the left of the Nishi-Tachikawa Gate — garden varieties such as Casablanca, Corcovado and Silk Road. From late July to late September, crape myrtles bloom on the slope north of the Canal and elsewhere. In Japanese, the name is written with characters meaning “red for a hundred days,” because the flowers last so long. And in August, in the flower bed in front of the Flowering Tree Garden exhibition building, egret orchids (sagiso) raised by volunteers are shown only during the “Sagiso Suzumi” (“cooling off with egret orchids”) period. The flower’s shape is said to resemble a flying egret. To look at a flower shaped like a white bird in order to feel cooler — people of old had an elegant way of beating the heat.

Waterside creatures are at their height in summer, too. The park’s Dragonfly Wetland is an artificial wetland made to preserve the nature of the Musashino plain, home to dragonfly nymphs, water striders, whirligig beetles and tadpoles. In season, the official website says, you can see green darners, red dragonflies and butterfly-winged dragonflies here, at the pond of the Japanese garden and at other watersides.

Waterfowl Lake, 3 minutes’ walk from the Nishi-Tachikawa Gate, has a water surface of about 5 hectares. Rowing boats seat three and cost 800 yen for 60 minutes; pedal boats seat two and cost 800 yen for 30 minutes. Children aged 9 and under cannot board unless accompanied by an adult aged 16 or over. On the water, a breeze blows a little more than on land. Pedal boats do have the drawback that the person doing the pedalling is not the slightest bit cooler.

At the Canal near the park entrance, a 200-metre waterway holds five fountains, large and small. Along both sides, 106 ginkgo trees — planted in the base era and moved to the park — stand in symmetrical rows. Above the big fountain at the far end stands Mineta Yoshiro’s sculpture To Tomorrow’s Sky, designed, in keeping with the park’s theme of “restoring greenery and enhancing humanity,” to evoke greenery, people and culture. The sound of the fountains alone seems to lower the temperature by a few degrees. Of course, it only seems to.

Tachikawa’s summer in numbers

• 1985 — The year the Rainbow Pool opened: on 28 June, in the middle of the rainy season.
• 300,000 — Annual users of the Rainbow Pool at its peak. More than 100,000 more than Tachikawa’s population.
• 15 — Minutes: how long the mist fills the Forest of Mist, starting on the hour and the half-hour. Even fairy tales have timetables.
• 231 — The number of Tachikawa cool-off spots in fiscal 2026. There are more places to escape the heat than you would think.
• 96 — People: the capacity of the Tachikawa Life Safety Learning Center, designated by the city as a cooling shelter. A building for disaster preparedness also protects people from the heat.
• 0 — Expressions of interest submitted in 2025 for the redevelopment of the former Rainbow Pool site. Rebuilding the summer’s star attraction is not that simple.

A wayfarer’s quiz

The “Forest of Mist” in the Children’s Forest at Showa Kinen Park stops producing mist from December to February. Why? (A) Few people come to see it in winter. (B) To prevent freezing. (C) To service the mist machines ready for summer. The answer is at the end.

There are summer watersides outside the park too. Let us go down to the south of Tachikawa, near the Tama River.

The Negawa Greenway’s “water plaza,” and Ganigara Plaza, with no crabs

According to the City of Tachikawa, Tachikawa Park is a large general park straddling Shibasakicho and Nishikicho, built around the Negawa Greenway, about 1.3 km long. The greenway was laid out from fiscal 1992 to 1996 and divided into four zones, each with its own theme of water and greenery. Along it, alongside a pond with steps down to the water and an azumaya (an open garden pavilion) jutting out over the water, is what the city calls “a water plaza where children can play safely.” The history of the Negawa stream itself is in the story on the Negawa and the Tama River, so here I will stick to summer.

Near the greenway there is another plaza that caught my attention: Ganigara Plaza, opened in April 2017 north of the Shibasaki Gymnasium. Making use of the greenery and spring water of the Tachikawa Cliff Line and the Shibasaki irrigation channel, it has play equipment and fitness equipment. According to the city, there used to be lots of crabs (kani, or gani in combination) around here, so the area was called “Ganigara,” and that became the plaza’s nickname. And the city adds, conscientiously: “There are no crabs now, but you can find a wide variety of plants and animals.”

A plaza named after crabs, with no crabs. City Hall admits it itself. I love that sentence. Only the name carries the memory of the old waterside. On a summer evening, listening to the irrigation water, I suspect many people find themselves glancing at their feet anyway, in case there is just one.

The Negawa Greenway is about 15 minutes on foot from the South Exit of Tachikawa Station, or about 1 minute from Shibasaki-Taiikukan Station on the Tama Monorail. Step off the train and you are at the water. On a hot day, a short walk is a virtue in itself.

So far we have walked from waterside to waterside. But what you really need to watch out for in a Tachikawa summer is not the watersides but the sunny streets in between.

How to walk in the heat: 231 cool-off spots, and the garbage truck’s warning

Since fiscal 2015, the City of Tachikawa has run the “Tachikawa Hitosuzumi Koekake Project” — roughly, “a word to cool off.” With the cooperation of city facilities and local businesses, it opens places where you are welcome to drop in and cool down if you feel hot or tired. It runs from 1 June to 30 September. In fiscal 2026, there are 231 cool-off spots across the city. Look for the poster; you can find the locations on the “Tachikawa Hitosuzumi Spot Map” the city hands out, and on a digital map.

The city is quite serious about getting the warnings out, too. Its list of fiscal 2026 measures includes the disaster radio, alert e-mails, the city’s official X account, and “warning announcements from garbage trucks.” Three official cars from the childcare support and health centre also drive around broadcasting warnings. The truck that came to collect the rubbish looks out for your life while it is at it. In a Tachikawa summer, it pays to listen even to the garbage truck’s music.

For the most dangerous hot days, in April 2024 the national government began operating a “Heatstroke Special Alert.” According to the City of Tachikawa, it is issued around 2 p.m. the day before when the next day’s maximum heat index (WBGT, a measure combining temperature, humidity and sunshine) is forecast to reach 35 at all 11 observation points in Tokyo. One level below it, the “Heatstroke Alert” is issued around 5 p.m. the day before and around 5 a.m. on the day when the heat index for that day or the next is forecast to reach 33 at any one of Tokyo’s 11 points. In 2026, the Special Alert operates from 22 April to 21 October. For nearly half the year, Tokyo keeps watch on the heat. As a place to rest when this alert is issued, the City of Tachikawa has designated a cooling shelter: the Tokyo Fire Department Tachikawa Life Safety Learning Center in Izumicho, Tachikawa. It can take 96 people. A building for learning to prepare for earthquakes and fires doubles in summer as a refuge from the heat. The center itself has its own story in this series.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government also began issuing its own heat information in fiscal 2025. When the day’s or next day’s maximum heat index looks likely to reach 35 or more at any of 62 municipal office points in Tokyo, it gives notice by municipality, at 4 p.m. the day before and 10 a.m. on the day. A system that tells you about Tachikawa’s heat under Tachikawa’s name.

The alerts have concrete effects on city life. The City of Tachikawa has decided that when a Special Alert is issued, the city’s elementary and junior high schools will, as a rule, close the following day — putting children’s safety on the way to and from school first, the city says. At outdoor sports facilities such as the athletics ground and baseball field in Tachikawa Park, there is a system to refund fees if you cancel a booking to prevent heatstroke. “Tachimuni Hiroba,” listed on the city’s heatstroke page, has a footbath, and when a Heatstroke Alert is issued, the footbath is temporarily shut. On days that are too hot, even the hot water gets a rest. It is only common sense, yet written up in a table it is a little funny.

So what should walkers watch out for? The advice on the City of Tachikawa’s heatstroke page is strikingly plain, and useful for exactly that reason. Drink water often and carry a drink. Walk in the shade as much as possible to avoid direct sunlight. Wear breathable clothes that absorb sweat and dry fast, and use a hat or a parasol. Get enough sleep and food, and do not push yourself when you feel unwell. The city adds that care is needed even when the temperature is not especially high: on days that suddenly get hot, humid days, days with little wind, and while your body is not yet used to the heat. It also gives first aid for someone you see falling ill: move them somewhere cool, loosen their clothing and cool their body, and have them drink. A salt solution of 1–2 grams of salt per litre of water also helps. If they cannot drink by themselves, do not force them; take them to a medical facility. If they are unconscious, call an ambulance at once (in Japan, dial 119). If you are unsure, you can phone the Tokyo Fire Department’s Emergency Telephone Consultation Center on #7119. Just remembering that number adds one more piece of reassurance to a summer walk.

Lay this advice over the map of Tachikawa. Go into Showa Kinen Park as soon as it opens, and by the time the water lilies close, move into the shade or indoors. For the Forest of Mist, aim for the hour and half-hour, and wait in nearby shade rather than in the sun. For the Negawa Greenway, get off at the monorail station a minute’s walk away. On a hot day in Tachikawa, every bit of travel you cut out is more time to enjoy yourself.

One word about the body. A sweaty body cools suddenly the moment it enters an air-conditioned train or building. Going back and forth between the heat outside and the cold inside may be the real source of summer tiredness in a city. Put a light layer in your bag and you will appreciate it on the train home.

As the sun goes down, the park closes its gates. So what does Tachikawa have on a summer night?

Tachikawa on summer nights: after the park closes

Showa Kinen Park is not open at night, even in summer. From April to September it closes at 5 p.m. on weekdays and at 6 p.m. even on weekends and holidays. However, the free Green Culture Zone near the station is open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. from April to September.

The biggest crowd on a summer night in Tachikawa is surely for the Showa Kinen Park fireworks festival. It descends from the summer-evening fireworks begun on the Tama River riverbed in 1954, a history told in the story on festivals and fireworks. For one summer night only, the park stays open and waits.

After the park closes, the city has plazas open at night. The plaza at GREEN SPRINGS, about 8 minutes’ walk from the North Exit of Tachikawa Station, is open 24 hours. When some of the day’s heat has gone, it is nice to go and listen to the sound of the cascade running through the second-floor plaza. In August there is the annual grand festival of Suwa Shrine, with lion dances and big drums. A summer night is made of festivals, the sound of water and a little night breeze.

Summer in Tachikawa is also fruit season. According to the City of Tachikawa, a summer-vegetable show is held in the city every year in late June, and in late August a show of fruit grown in the city, such as pears and grapes. The city’s agricultural produce guide map describes pears as the most produced fruit in the city, naming varieties such as Hosui, Kosui and Inagi. Go a little north of the station and there is a farmland summer. On the same map, blueberries are grown on 443 ares, the third-largest area among the fruit trees named, after chestnuts and persimmons. In late June there is also a parent-and-child harvest event in which elementary school children and their parents dig up sweetcorn and potatoes grown by the Tachikawa Noukenkai, an association of young farmers who are taking over family farms. Even without a pool, Tachikawa’s children can get covered in soil in the fields in summer. That is told in more detail in the story on Tachikawa’s farms.

Summer at the former site, and the summers to come

At the start, I asked where Tachikawa’s summer had gone.

What I found is that Tachikawa’s summer has not vanished but changed shape and scattered. A summer that once gathered 300,000 people in one place is now laid out in pieces: in mist that rises on the hour and half-hour, in morning water lilies, in the sound of water at a plaza with no crabs, in 231 cool-off spots. Each piece is small. But gather them all up, and Tachikawa’s summer adds up to a full day.

I learned one more thing. The pool site is not finished. The national government says it will become a place to enjoy water all year round, and even though nobody raised a hand in the first round of bidding, it is revising the conditions and preparing for a second. This is the park that, more than 40 years ago, built a pool named after a rainbow on the site of an airfield. Nobody knows yet what the next waterside will be called.

One thing is certain: Tachikawa is a city used to dealing with former sites. The airfield’s site became a park, and the base’s site became a town. The pool’s site, too, will one day become some kind of summer again.

Until then, in the Forest of Mist, when the clock reaches the hour, the woods turn white again today.

Quiz answer

The answer is (B), to prevent freezing. According to the official website, the mist in the Forest of Mist is stopped from December to February to prevent freezing. Winter mist would freeze. The Forest of Mist is a forest for summer.

Before you go

• Getting to Tachikawa: From Shinjuku, take the JR Chuo Line to Tachikawa. For Nishi-Tachikawa, change at Tachikawa to the JR Ome Line. Check the current timetable before you set off.
• Rainbow Pool: Closed since the end of the fiscal 2019 season; demolition, removal and preparations for redevelopment are under way (according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). You cannot swim there. For progress on the redevelopment, check announcements from the Showa Kinen Park office (Japanese): https://www.ktr.mlit.go.jp/showa/
• Children’s Forest and the Forest of Mist: In the northern part of Showa Kinen Park. About 35 minutes’ walk from the Tachikawa Gate, about 25 from the Nishi-Tachikawa Gate and about 23 from the Sunagawa Gate. Mist from 10:00 to 15:00, for 15 minutes from the hour and the half-hour (5 minutes in high humidity), stopped from December to February (according to the official website). The Rainbow Hammock is closed on some days for inspection.
• Getting to the park: The Nishi-Tachikawa Gate is about 2 minutes from the Park Exit of Nishi-Tachikawa Station on the JR Ome Line. The Tachikawa Gate is about 18 minutes from the North Exit of JR Tachikawa Station, or about 16 minutes from Tachikawa-Kita Station on the Tama Monorail. For the Sunagawa Gate, take a bus from stop No. 2 at the North Exit of JR Tachikawa Station to “Showa Kinen Koen Sunagawa-guchi” (昭和記念公園砂川口), about 13 minutes, then walk about 2 minutes.
• Hours, admission, closing days and flower seasons may change. Latest details on the official site: https://www.showakinen-koen.jp/
• Negawa Greenway (Tachikawa Park): About 15 minutes’ walk from the South Exit of JR Tachikawa Station, or about 1 minute from Shibasaki-Taiikukan Station on the Tama Monorail. City information (Japanese): https://www.city.tachikawa.lg.jp/kanko/sports/1002924/1003007.html
• Preparing for the heat: Tachikawa cool-off spots open from 1 June to 30 September. Locations on the city’s page and map (Japanese): https://www.city.tachikawa.lg.jp/kenko/kenkozukuri/1003171/1025258/1003270.html
• Practical tips: Carry an IC transport card such as Suica or PASMO; it works on JR trains, the monorail and buses. Carry water and a hat. Emergency number in Japan: 119; if unsure, the Tokyo Fire Department’s consultation line is #7119.
• Combine it with: in the morning, Waterfowl Lake and the morning flowers of the Flowering Tree Garden from the Nishi-Tachikawa Gate; before noon, the Forest of Mist in the Children’s Forest; rest indoors in the hottest part of the afternoon; and in the evening, the waterside of the Negawa Greenway. In a fireworks year, save your energy for that night.

Leave the summer sweat at the North Exit

Walk Tachikawa all day in midsummer and your shirt grows heavy with sweat again and again, only to be chilled each time by an air-conditioned train. Going back and forth between heat and cold tires the body more than you think.

One minute’s walk from the North Exit of JR Tachikawa Station, on the third floor of the Etoile Building at 2-14-10 Akebonocho, Tachikawa, is On the Shore Tachikawa (オンザショア立川店), a hot yoga studio heated by lava-stone plates. Besides lava-stone hot yoga, it offers room-temperature yoga, Pilates, women-only kickboxercise, boxercise, HIIT and personal training, with more than 25 kinds of yoga lesson.

It is open every day from 8:00 to 23:30. Even after the park has closed, there is still time.

A trial yoga lesson costs ¥1,980 including tax, with two bath towels, one face towel and a yoga mat included in the rental. Even on a day you are drenched in sweat, you can drop in with nothing but yourself.

Pregnant guests cannot take part in lava-stone hot yoga, but room-temperature maternity yoga is available. Many of our yoga instructors speak English, and the studio’s owner, Naomi Fujita, who holds Japan’s top English qualification (Eiken Grade 1) and a perfect TOEIC score and once worked as a translator and overseas interpreter at Nomura Securities, and who lived in Alaska for three years, often helps guests from the US bases in English herself (visitors from abroad have even left Google reviews about the care they received in English); if you would like an English-friendly lesson, just say so when you book.

Studio information: https://ontheshore.jp/ — trial lesson booking: https://site.locaop.jp/C0aVK?_src=hp

Rather than running away from the heat outside, sweat again, slowly, in a warmth you chose yourself. As ways to end a Tachikawa summer go, that is not a bad one.

Cover photo: The Canal at Showa Kinen Park: beyond the flower beds, a waterway runs between rows of square-clipped ginkgo trees. (Photo: Hotate Chan / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons)

Information as of October 2026.

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