sakura walk(s) (sakurazaka & meguro river)

Sunday started out cloudy and cold...we went to check out Sakurazaka which was almost in full bloom.

The area near Tamagawa wasn't quite ready, so hopefully I'll be able to go sometime this week.

As dusk approached we went to check out the light up of the Meguro River.

It was pretty! (photo by Satoshi)

We stayed around the Ikejiri-Ohashi Station area because we knew the area closer to the Nakameguro Station would be krazy.

Today is the start of a new fiscal year and also a new era will be named.

The emperor will "retire" at the end of April and the Crown Prince will become the new Emperor at the start of May...to read more about this check out the article here.

Hope to get in more sakura spots this week, hope you aren't getting sick of all these sakura posts.

sakurazaka

Tuesday, I went to check out one of the spots for blossoms, Sakurazaka (literally cherry blossom hill)

Apparently this particular area was the model for Masaharu Fukuyama's song "Sakurazaka".

On this particular day, the blossoms weren't quite ready and at the time I was putting this post together, Tokyo was still waiting for the weather people, to see 5 flowers on the specific tree (there were only 4 flowers) to announce the start of the cherry blossom season.

It is the Vernal Equinox (First day of Spring & a holiday) today, hopefully the weather dudes will be able to see one more flower bloom so that this cherry blossom season can get started.