Maruyama Park

The main entrance runs through Yasaka Shrine, at the eastern end of Shijō Street in Gion, and the temples of Chion-in and Shōren-in lie just to the north. Until the Meiji era the land belonged to the precincts of Yasaka Shrine and nearby temples. It became a park in 1886, the first city park of Kyoto, and in 1912 the gardener Ogawa Jihei laid out the pond garden that gives it its present form. Other features include an open-air music hall from 1927, teahouses and statues of Sakamoto Ryōma and Nakaoka Shintarō.