In this study, the impression of the environment as a whole and the impression of sound environment in urban parks were investigated taking the geographical distribution into consideration. Two kinds of questionnaire survey were conducted. First, a questionnaire survey was carried out to the visitors in urban parks and L_{Aeq, 1min} was measured at the same place were the survey was conducted. The results suggested that the main purpose of the visitors had a significant effect on the evaluation of annoyance, and it was found that in the areas where static facilities were located near the highway, the visitors were not satisfied with either sound environment or overall environment. In another questionnaire survey that was conducted around the fountains in two parks, the results suggested that sounds from fountains might have a significant effect to reduce the adverse effect of road traffic noise. Most of the people staying within sound of the fountain didn't feel annoy even though L_{Aeq, 1min} values were high. However, around fountain areas, people out of sound of the fountain felt more annoy.

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