Hello everyone!
This post is about my first contribution to the Accessible Life project, for which I chose the Japanese Garden of my city.
For those of you who don’t know what Accessible Life is, here is the explanation by no other than the creator:
"Accessible Life is a project created to help all people explore nature and public places, regardless of their mobility, with the ability to share these accessible places on Google Earth. With Accessible Life we want to be able to offer information on those places accessible in the open air which, by their nature, cannot be adequately managed through the accessibility information available in Google Maps." - @ermest
I knew about this project some time before it was announced, and as I was brainstorming what places to contribute I thought of this garden and I immediately knew I had to add it to Accessible Life!
I had visited it many times, including in meet-ups like Fotografía del Jardín Japonés
I always loved how much the garden takes accessibility into account. As you are walking and enjoying the park, you see accessibility everywhere!
I definitely took more time to send my My Maps than I thought, as I waited for its places inside to be approved and being busy with other things, but I finally visited the Garden again last week and was able to capture the photos I had missing as well as verify how things are. COVID-19 restrictions did change the garden a bit.
The good thing about me not finishing the My Maps so soon, is that the week I visited the garden is the week the Sakura trees are more flowered!
I think that it was the first time I could visit the garden with the trees in that perfect state, so it’s the first time I could take a good photo of the “Sakura trees path” attraction the garden’s map shows.
Here is the information I was able to get from my last visit, and from my memory, based on Ermes’s guide for Accessible Life:
"The Japanese Garden has the size of 3 hectares, most of its path is accessible and many of its points of interest are equipped with accessible ramps.
Type of place: City Park
Area size: Medium
Time required for the visit: 2 hours
Public transport: Yes
-Type: Bus
-How far from entrance: 200 meters
Car parking: Yes
Facilities for a break: Yes
Public toilets: Yes
Food and drink for sale: Yes, a restaurant and a kiosk
Guided tour: Yes
Accessible: Yes"
You can check out the My Maps to see how accessible it is and read information of the accessibility of its attractions!
I really loved contributing in this project as it helped me A LOT to contribute in a very complete way and putting a lot of emphasis in accessibility. I don’t remember the last time I contributed in an area in such a complete way!
The guide Ermes did for the project really helped, both in making my contributions to Maps so complete and to making my contribution to Accessible Life so easy, and Ermes himself helped in both ways too!
I’m already thinking of what place to contribute next of the list I have, but I you haven’t I really encourage you to contribute to Accessible Life! It’s easy, it helps a lot, and if that isn’t enough you are getting a lot of Local Guides points ?
features. It would be fun to visit the park on Google Earth. Thanks for sharing 
Y como decís lo hace todavía mejor que sea tan accesible y con carteles que lo recuerden por todos lados!
pero bueno, mejor tarde que nunca! y ahora tengo tiempo para ir viendo las demás 
but it still was the most beautiful I have ever seen it, I usually visit it on Spring or when the trees aren’t blossomed so it was great to see it this way.