Wakasu
Wakasu (若洲, Wakasu) also known as Wakasu Island, is an island located in Kōtō, Tokyo. It is located south of Shin-Kiba and is connected to a new unnamed island to the south by the Tokyo Gate Bridge.
The island is often associated with the 1989 murder of Junko Furuta, a high school student whose body was located there in a metal drum and completely encased in concrete. The perpetrators were four teenage boys.
Details
[edit | edit source]Wakasu, like many other areas of Tokyo, is reclaimed land. Save for the camping ground, Wakasu was constructed on a base of incinerator bottom ash remains from garbage, a form of land reclamation common in Japan.
Roughly half of the island is an industrial zone, while the other half contains the Wakasu Seaside Park,[1][2] Wakasu Golf Course,[3] and a popular camping ground.[4] There is also a large wind turbine located nearby the golf course. The 18-hole golf course and the campground attract many people from all over Tokyo.
Wakasu was planned to be the venue for sailing events at the 2020 Summer Olympics,[5] but the yachting instead took place in Enoshima, Kanagawa Prefecture.[6]
Wakasu is the location near where the body of Junko Furuta, the victim of the "1989 concrete-encased high school girl murder case", was discovered after her murder.[7][better source needed]
Schools
[edit | edit source]Koto Ward Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools.
Minamisuna Elementary School (南砂小学校) is the zoned public elementary school for Wakasu.[8]
Minamisuna Junior High School (南砂中学校) is the zoned public junior high school for Wakasu.[9]
References
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External links
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- Some information about the golf course at GolfPass.com
- Reference and directions to the golf course in Continental Magazine Online Archived 2006-05-24 at the Wayback Machine.
- Review of the golf course in Golf in Japan.
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