Lake Tama (Murayama Reservoir) & cycling road
Lake Tama (Murayama Reservoir)
多摩湖（村山貯水池） / 多摩湖自転車道
An unexpected beauty spot near Tokyo: a retro Taisho-era intake tower, and cycling amid water and greenery.
The body of Lake Tama (Murayama Reservoir) spans several municipalities, including Higashimurayama and Higashiyamato. We introduce it not as “a lake within Higashimurayama,” but as a scenic spot nearby that you can reach starting from Higashimurayama Station.
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Highlights & things to do
Its official name is “Murayama Reservoir,” a man-made lake divided by an embankment into an upper and a lower reservoir.
The lake's symbol, the “First Intake Tower,” is a retro dome-roofed structure said to have been completed in 1925; it is listed as a Tokyo-designated historic building.
Along the lake runs the “Lake Tama cycling and pedestrian path,” where you can cycle or stroll amid water and greenery.
Picture-perfect scenery unfolds here — the kind that makes you say, “There's a view like this in Tokyo?”
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Photo gallery
Photo credit: Photo: Keihin Nike / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). The First Intake Tower at the Lower Murayama Reservoir.
So close to central Tokyo, yet a place where water and sky open wide. If I told my cycling-loving Taiwanese friends about it, I'm sure they'd be delighted.
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