Picnic in Kamakura Hiromachi Green

Mr. and Mrs. Greenwood enjoy  picnic in nearby Hiromachi Green. Hiromachi Green lies just south of Kamakura-yama and north of Seven Mile Beach. Developer is waiting city approval for urban development. People living near are against this plan.

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Hiromachi Green and Enoshima Island


大きな地図で見る

Hiromachi Green and Seven Mile Beach  Google Map


Guide Map of Hiromachi Green

50 x 50 m grid

red  lines show major public foot path

Color of countour lines identify major plants in the woods

There are six access gates to enter into this forest, and 15 routes for walking.

Streams

foot path 16 point I6 a stream in Takegayatsu April 2008

Plants

Just behind the Seven Mile Beach, there is a big paulownia tree . Flowers are magnificent in spring.

foot path 2 point H16 Paulownia tree April 28, 2008

foot path 4 point H14 top of Ohmine-yama  April 28, 2008

foot path 5 point I16 Aphananthe aspera in Dai-takega-yatsu April 28, 2008

There is a abandoned rice paddy in Kihachi-kubo. It's down stream changes to a dry field filled with wild grass.

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foot path 5 point J7 Grass field 1999 winter

foot path 8 point O12 a rope adhered to a trunk of a tree November 2007

foot path 9 point I10 Zelkova tree  June 2007

In the northern part of Hiromachi Green, there is a very old cherry tree that may be 400 years old.

foot path 12 point Q3 Old Cherry Tree in June 2007

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foot path 12 point Q4 a Pasania tree near Old Cherry Tree

foot path 14 point J4  Rice paddy in September 24, 2007

foot path 14 point K4  Japanese pampas grass November 25, 2007

Feb. 2

April 8

June. 17

Dec. 18

foot path 14 point O1   Japanese hackberry  in four seasons

If you come out from east side of Hiromachi Green, you can go into Kamakura-yama residential area where fine country estate are lined up along the ridge of the hill.


Vintage Bentlay

November 13, 1999

Rev. January 31, 2012


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