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Monday, April 03, 2023

gongendo & ueno

From where we live it was about 2 hours to Gongendo, which is located in Satte city, Saitama.

Along the 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) long bank there are supposedly 1000 cherry trees.

The volunteers that take care of this area, plant the rapeseed (the yellow flowers) to bloom at about the same time as the sakura.

This area reminded me of Yawata in Kyoto.

This looked like a river with petals floating on it, you aren’t allowed to go down, but I think it was a dry riverbed.
We brought breakfast (a musubi which we ate on the train) & lunch : tonkatsu + cabbage + yukari musubi because I wasn't sure if they would have vendors...FYI there were a lot of vendors


I found a vendor selling baby castella that was in the shape of Hello Kitty...12 for 400 yen (tax included)

There were 2 other vendors selling baby castella too!

We also had coffee and yomogi dango from another vendor (no photo)

There were quite a lot of people, even if my photos don't show it.

We want to come back to see the hydrangea in June and the spider lilies in September.

On the way home, we stopped at Ueno Park because Satoshi wanted to see this area during this season as reasearch for tour guiding...which was a mistake...it was krazy!

We tried to get out of there as soon as possible!

Still the weather was nice, so it was nice to be out and about.

Photos/videos here if you are interested.

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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:58 PM, April 03, 2023

    Thank you for sharing! I've been enjoying the your blog and especially like the pics of food, flowers, and Tokyo people.

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  2. K and S3:33 PM, April 03, 2023

    Glad you have been enjoying this blog Anon!

    Take care.
    Kat

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  3. Anonymous2:13 AM, April 04, 2023

    your musubi looks so delicious, and 2 hours almost like me going to Kawazu in February. Sure looked worth it, though. So pretty.
    Ueno Park on the last weekend of cherry blossom season. ugh.
    v

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  4. Lindsay-Jean10:53 AM, April 04, 2023

    So so lovely!!

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  5. K and S11:35 AM, April 04, 2023

    V, you should really come during this season, just go holoholo early so you don't run into the crowds :)

    LJ, it really was :)

    Take care you two.
    Kat

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  6. Rowena4:25 PM, April 04, 2023

    I gotta ask...reading that it took 2 hours to get there, have you guys ever hopped off at any of the train stops along the route to grab something quick from a food vendor before the train departed? I would so do it if they had food vendors here.

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  7. K and S2:29 PM, April 05, 2023

    Most smaller stations nowadays do not have anything on their platforms, Rowena, also if you are travelling really early in the morning, nothing is open. When the trains had windows that could be opened, there used to be people who came while the train stopped to sell bentos since the train ride was longer than 2 hours...

    Take care.
    Kat

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  8. KirkK11:25 AM, April 15, 2023

    I can imagine how crazy Ueno Park was!

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  9. K and S4:47 PM, April 16, 2023

    it definitely was Kirk!

    Take care.
    Kat

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