抄録
Although previous studies pointed healing effects from waterfront, quantitative evaluations and factor of healing effects were still unknown. To evaluate quantitatively healing effects from river and coast and its associated factors, in this study, we measured simultaneously psychological stress and sound and thermal environments at six sites in which the measuring points were selected near waterfront and urban area in its neighborhood. The measured results indicated that 1) the measured values of salivary amylase activity, one of useful stress markers, in several waterfronts were appreciably lower than those in urban area, and 2) the healing effects in waterfronts were closely related to sound and thermal environments.
