[1] The park is centered around a 400-year-old black pine that grew alongside the Edo period road, the Ōshū Kaidō.

[3] The park also includes a small zoo, playground space, a tennis court, an unpaved jogging course, and a tea pavilion.

[4][3] The park was designed by the former official gardener of the Hirosaki Domain, Eisaku Mizuhara, and his brother Mijuro Kakizaki in 1881.

[2] Mijuro's efforts ran into financial difficulty in 1890, so the then-town of Aomori provided subsidies to help complete the park with the goal of having it eventually designated as a public area.

[5] After World War II, the park was occupied by the United States Armed Forces until it was returned to the city of Aomori in 1954.