Abstract
Each region has its own characteristic pattern of recreational activities. The purpose of this paper is to study the patterns and their arrangements of activities performed by the citydwellers, especially in Osaka City. The types of recreation treated here are confined to those which are used by the people travelling from a location of daily work, whereas there are other kinds enjoyed by those of different character of daily work.
The result of the study is as follows. The recreational activities performed inside the city amount to more than 85% and the rest is performed outside the city, the percentage of the latter changing in inverse proportion to the distance from the city. The pattern of recreation inside the city is different from that used outside. Inside the city, a passive type like movies is chiefly employed. Outside the city, in a region within an hour's trip from the city the pattern of recreation is mainly to give people rest and refreshment in their own residences, but in an area within 1_??_3 hours' distance from the city one-day-trip recreation as hiking is most common. In an area over 3-hours' distance no one-day trips are used, but several-day tours.
Thus, as recreational activites performed by the city-dwellers vary according to the regions around the city, recreational landscapes caused by such activities are also different. That is, inside the city there is a recreational landscape as an amusement center, and in the region within an hour's trip from the city, such facilities as parks and greengrounds around the residence have been developed. In the region within l_??_3 hours' trip from the city there developed facilities for active recreational activities as hiking and driving. Furthermore, in a big region over 3-hours' from the city, there are dispersed resort places such as spas, scenic and historic spots, etc. And in these places various service agencies have been developed as an urban amusement center.
