Visiting Tokyo but don’t have enough time to travel around Japan to see the traditional architectures and the Japanese gardens. It would be wonderful to take a trip to Kyoto, Wakayama or Gifu to see the temples, pagoda, and country houses, but you would need the luxury of time to do that. Well, here’s an…
Cherry blossom is here in Tokyo now! A very ordinary suburban Tokyo streets change its appearance in quite a dramatic way with the coming of spring, when roads are covered with cherry blossoms. These photos are not from any tourist oriented locations but just plain ordinary suburban neighborhood of Yakumo in Meguro Ward. The power…
The people of Japan eagerly await the blooming of cherry blossoms when spring comes. Cherry blossoms are in bloom for only a week where they can be found, but it is between late March and mid-May that they bloom throughout the various locations in Japan, as the country is long from north to south. The…
Japan’s prettiest national pastime of hanami, or cherry blossom viewing, has got off to its earliest start ever. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced the beginning of cherry blossom, or ‘sakura,’ season over the weekend. The declaration came after the agency’s designated index tree at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine showed the first flowers in bloom on Saturday,…
