The park was a wooded area. It was planned as a park in 1935 ahead of the 2,600th anniversary of the legendary founding of Japan by
Emperor Jimmu, the mythical first emperor of Japan. After Japan was awarded the
1940 Summer Olympics in 1936 it was planned that the Olympic village would have built either here in the Todoroki Gorge area. After the start of the
Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 the Olympics were forfeited to
Helsinki in
Finland, (the runner-up in the bidding process) but were later cancelled entirely due to
World War II. In 1957 the area became a public golf course, which was later closed and turned into the park in its current form. The park still resembles a golf course when seen from above. ==Access==