Today I have been walking around in Yoyogi park, observing and interviewing different types of people about their relation to the park. I got help from Mai Matsuoka and Fujimoto Yuta to translate my questions. It was very interesting to get a little bit more understanding about the urban behaviour in a park like Yoyogi. People come here for many reasons, and travels from all sort of places. Some as short as only 10 minutes by walk, and other as far as Hokkaido in North Japan.

Here is a list of activities that I have observed in Yoyogi park:

 

Walking

Sketching
Watercolor painting
Singing
Performing/acting
Choir practice
High school student PE-class
Eating lunch
Watching people

Resting and refreshing

Juggling
Arranging waterballoon competition
Play badminton
Outdoor kindergarden
Bicycling on the bike track
Jogging
Walking dogs and let them run loose at the dog-run park
Look at plants
Earthquake emergency zone supply
Give work to poor/homeless people (such as clean, fix park objects and watering plants)
Sleeping (homeless sleeping camp in the outskirts of the park)
Comedian act
Party (hanami/momiji)
Ritual performance
Use the toilet or changing rooms
Take photos of views and people
Play an instrument
Sightseeing
Philosophy reading
Discussion at a table
Meet friends that lives far away
Dating
Excercise martial art
Dance
Play in natural surroundings (with sticks, rocks..)
Light small fireworks