2010 Volume 73 Issue 5 Pages 413-416
Forest occupies most of Japanese domain. Nevertheless there is not enough area of flat forest park. Thus a forest footpath is an important element as the space of contact of city people and forest. Yet,a research which analyzed the relationship evaluation of forest footpath and the relaxation effect of walking in the forest is not enough. Thus,this paper analyzed the relationship between the relaxation effect of forest bathing by POMS and the evaluation of the forest footpath. The evaluation of the forest footpath : A number of photographs of favorable space during walk, an error in assessing time and distance in the walk. In the result, amount of stress reduction and vitality increase of the participants are likely to be improved in the footpath which was as follow. : Higher diversity of forest landscape, easier walking road, many attractive scene.In addition, The number of pictures of the good scenery is related to the value of the stress response before walking and frequency forest trail.
