Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to clear up the characteristics of park use at Shinjyuku Gyoen according to age brackets and the factor of selection of space, in order to be helpful for park planning, which consider various park visitors. The authors made an investigation about the characteristics of park use: age, places of residence, types of group, frequency of visit, length of visit, purpose of visit, staying area, activity, by questionnaire survey at Shinjyuku Gyoen, where are several gardens in diferent style. As the result, the relation between the characteristics of park use and age brackets became clear by analysis of cross totalization. And the factor of selection of space was synthetically grasped through the relationship among age brackets, types of group, frequency and activity by multivariate statistical analysis.
