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Sunday the weather was beautiful, and since most of the coming week will either be cloudy or rainy, we made sure to get out and about.

Saturday night, I saw Togoji featured during the weather report, so we and everyone else visited on Sunday.

From where we live it is about an hour and a half by train.

We rarely ride the Keio trains, so we had a hard time figuring out where to catch our transfer inside the Keio Chofu station, otherwise I'm sure we would've arrived earlier...

From the Keio Tamareien station, it is about 5 minutes walking.

Togoji has 5 or 6 weeping cherry trees...so HUGE and so beautiful.

The temple sits on the land of Admiral Togo’s villa. 

And the gate was a model for Akira Kurosawa’s ”Rashomon”

From Togoji, we went to Shukugawara, to check out the Nikaryo Waterway, a tiny river-like waterway that is lined with cherry trees and many bridges.

I saw this area on a J-drama and marked it to check out.

I had also totally forgotten that we had been to this area when we visited Myorakuji.

I think the walk along the waterway was about 1 kilometer (.62 miles) long.

So cute these two picnic-ing.

My favorite shot of the day was the moss on this bridge

The sakura is just starting to bloom, but it was still pretty to see.

If you'd like to see a few more photos, please look here.

Togoji

3-40-10 Shimizugaoka

Fuchu, Tokyo

Phone: 042.361.2663

Nikaryo Waterway

near the JR Shukugawara station