を手掛かりに、コンクリート遊具のしくみ、歴史、中の人インタビューなど徹底的に調べてみました！
August 16, 2021 7:31 PM Subscribe
Nagoya, in central Japan, has many playground
slides shaped like Mt. Fuji. Twitter user @223playmount and others are documenting them. There's an online index, a book, and even fashion accessories.
Gorgeous.
One minor thing, you copied the back half of a sentence. It starts with a particle that's missing its subject.
The full sentence is:
名古屋市に分布する「富士山すべり台」を手掛かりに、コンクリート遊具のしくみ、歴史、中の人インタビューなど徹底的に調べてみました！
Google Translate says:
Using the "Mt. Fuji slide" distributed in Nagoya as a clue, I thoroughly investigated the mechanism, history, and interviews with people inside the concrete playground!
posted by fnerg at 8:01 PM on August 16, 2021 [3 favorites]
One minor thing, you copied the back half of a sentence. It starts with a particle that's missing its subject.
The full sentence is:
名古屋市に分布する「富士山すべり台」を手掛かりに、コンクリート遊具のしくみ、歴史、中の人インタビューなど徹底的に調べてみました！
Google Translate says:
Using the "Mt. Fuji slide" distributed in Nagoya as a clue, I thoroughly investigated the mechanism, history, and interviews with people inside the concrete playground!
posted by fnerg at 8:01 PM on August 16, 2021 [3 favorites]
Damn. Thanks for the correction, fnerg. I should know better than to try to copy stuff in a language I don't actually speak. Sincere apologies.
posted by eotvos at 8:05 PM on August 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by eotvos at 8:05 PM on August 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
The concrete slides in Japan really surprised me the first couple of times I saw them (all "regular" slides and not Mt. Fuji ones). I guess I just expected all slides to be metal or plastic like they are here in Canada. I've slid down a couple without getting scratched up so I now know they work fine and wonder why we don't have them here. I'm guessing its something to do with freeze-thaw cycles or how hurt a kid could get if they hit their head on it.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 8:25 PM on August 16, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 8:25 PM on August 16, 2021 [2 favorites]
Concrete slides are great - you need a piece of cardboard to sit on and sprinkle some sand ahead of you to speed stuff up ....
posted by mbo at 9:00 PM on August 16, 2021
posted by mbo at 9:00 PM on August 16, 2021
Or a skateboard.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:03 PM on August 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:03 PM on August 16, 2021 [1 favorite]
Around the corner from our house, there's a tiny little park and with swings, a little sand pit (shaped like a hippo) and a slide in the shape of an elephant. The stairs go up where the tail would be, and the slide is the trunk. It has an official name, but everyone in the area calls it 象公園, or Zou Koen (Elephant Park). It seems pretty popular with the neighborhood kids.
One of the things I've heard, but can't really corroborate, is that a lot of the little tiny parks you see in Japan, like, a swing set, and a patch of grass amidst a bunch of new houses or apartment towers, are there as a sort of marker for old growth/vaguely holy woods that were cleared for whatever construction project. The park is erected as a little memento/offering. It's just sort of one of those things I've heard while living here.
The other one, and this is more of a concrete thing, is that there are all sorts of fun laws about land, property, and taxes here. For example, the tax on vacant lots is something like six times the tax on land that has something on it. This is one reason for people leaving their empty houses standing. They might be unable to sell the land, and until they can, they leave the empty house there. BUT, sometimes out in the burbs, you'll see a giant parcel of empty land, with sidewalks leading to a tiny little park in the center of the lot. This is the same thing, just on the part of the company that's holding the land, waiting for the time to build giant apartment blocks. Having that little park that no one ever uses gives them a huge tax break.
/the more you know shooting star
posted by Ghidorah at 9:27 PM on August 16, 2021 [13 favorites]
One of the things I've heard, but can't really corroborate, is that a lot of the little tiny parks you see in Japan, like, a swing set, and a patch of grass amidst a bunch of new houses or apartment towers, are there as a sort of marker for old growth/vaguely holy woods that were cleared for whatever construction project. The park is erected as a little memento/offering. It's just sort of one of those things I've heard while living here.
The other one, and this is more of a concrete thing, is that there are all sorts of fun laws about land, property, and taxes here. For example, the tax on vacant lots is something like six times the tax on land that has something on it. This is one reason for people leaving their empty houses standing. They might be unable to sell the land, and until they can, they leave the empty house there. BUT, sometimes out in the burbs, you'll see a giant parcel of empty land, with sidewalks leading to a tiny little park in the center of the lot. This is the same thing, just on the part of the company that's holding the land, waiting for the time to build giant apartment blocks. Having that little park that no one ever uses gives them a huge tax break.
/the more you know shooting star
posted by Ghidorah at 9:27 PM on August 16, 2021 [13 favorites]
oh wow it never clicked that I’ve only seen these in Nagoya but it’s completely true
very very cool stuff
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:38 AM on August 17, 2021 [1 favorite]
very very cool stuff
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:38 AM on August 17, 2021 [1 favorite]
...everyone in the area calls it 象公園, or Zou Koen (Elephant Park).
I was well into adulthood when I learned that our Elephant Park actually had a real name. It originally got its name due to circus-themed playground equipment, which also had an elephant-themed slide. When the old, rusty, rather dangerous equipment was replaced in the early 1990s, the city installed a fiberglass elephant statue so that people...wouldn't be confused I guess?
posted by AzraelBrown at 7:20 AM on August 17, 2021 [3 favorites]
I was well into adulthood when I learned that our Elephant Park actually had a real name. It originally got its name due to circus-themed playground equipment, which also had an elephant-themed slide. When the old, rusty, rather dangerous equipment was replaced in the early 1990s, the city installed a fiberglass elephant statue so that people...wouldn't be confused I guess?
posted by AzraelBrown at 7:20 AM on August 17, 2021 [3 favorites]
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