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A park in Nagaoka with some 2,500 cherry trees, which the townspeople call simply the hill.
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Yukyuzan Park is an urban park established on Yukyuzan in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. In 1917 (Taisho 6), the decision to make it a park was taken on the occasion of the 300th anniversary festival of the founding of Nagaoka, and it opened in 1919 (Taisho 8) with 20,000 tsubo of Aoshiba Shrine land and 50,000 tsubo donated by the Reishukai (a group formed for Nagaoka's future by citizen volunteers aged 60 and over, including Yamada Matashichi, president of Takarada Oil).
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