The Distribution of Evaluation Activities by Visitors on Walks Course of Nature Recreation Forest

Abstract

This study aims to clear the characteristics of visitors' evaluation activities in their walking at Akazawa national recreational forest. For this, we attempt to investigate courses which visitor had walked by questionnaire firstly. And then we investigate the walked courses of visitors and analyze the distribution of evaluation activities by tracking survey. Finally, we analyzed the relationship between distribution of landscape factors evaluated by visitors and the structure of corresponding course. As a result visitors' walking pathway might be divided into two types: one is short way along by stream, the other is long way or the combination of more than three courses. Secondly visitors' evaluation activities indicated that visitors are attracted by the factors such as peculiar plant, giant tree when they are walking. Thirdly, most of visitors had done some evaluation activities on the bridges linked walking courses to streams in the park. It is also found that the evaluations decrease with walking time, but it may increase in the course with high landscape diversity.