Musashino City Swimming Pool — Attraction in Tokyo

This review is about the outdoor pool, open from July 1 to September 16 not about the indoor 25m and children's pools which are ordinary and overly warm, and overly regulated... Good points: This is a relatively good pool in the Tokyo area. It's deep and also has a cold water inlet pipe which helps keep it cool - cooler than other local outdoor pools at least, which are like warm baths. There's a shallow kid's section and a section where (very rare case) diving is permitted, but only for junior high school age and older. There are 2 very large shady trees at the far end which I think are an asset - some people perhaps don't like leaves making their way into the pool but for me that's no problem at all. I disagree with comments that the pool is dirty. Adults ¥200 children ¥10 Bad points: The poolside staff! Too many of them and overly zealous and intrusive. The ridiculous every 1 or 2 hours 'kyukei jikan' enforced 10 minute break should be done away with. It's the same at all public pools in Tokyo (I don't know about the rest of Japan). Sooo...

The staff is friendly and helpful, I was able to enjoy swimming there with a group of kids, and also on my own. Kids are noisy but thankful the staff let kids be kids and have fun, so it's comfortable for parents with multiple kids. Also, the area is separated well so if you want a quieter swim, that possible too. Most of the rules are posted in Japanese though, but staff will help you if you don't understand something. Anyways 10 yen for kids and 200 for adults is a...

Fun if not too busy, but it is quite dirty and needs a good clean. There are also the typically strange rules that require everyone to get out of the pool and stretch for 10 minutes every hour. This is some nonsense pseudoscience that has no basis in reality. They also closed all the outdoor pools in early September when the temperatures are still well above 30 degrees Celsius. Why do they make swimming...