kunitachi

Thursday, I went to Kunitachi.

It's an 8 minute walk from the JR Yaho station.

Daigakudori (University Avenue) is lined with many cherry trees as well as benches and other flowers.

The benches have heartfelt messages attached to them from their donors

After a night of rain though...there was a lot of petals on the ground

The rotary in front of the JR Kunitachi station has many cherry trees too.

The sun came out once in awhile

It doesn’t look like a lot of people were around but there were lots of people out enjoying the flowers

Hitotsubashi University is on both sides of Daigakudori

There are also art pieces from their 2015 Biennale here and there.

This one was called "elephant" on Sakuradori (Cherry Blossom Avenue)

Sakuradori also had many cherry trees lining the street

As I was walking back to the JR Yaho station, I noticed a line and bought some items from Pain de Campagne.

Since no one was in the Yaho South Exit Park, I sat on a bench and had this bacon cream cheese sandwich...258 yen + tax

It said bacon but was more like thinly sliced ham

A slight breeze would bring petals fluttering

And had this sakura beurre (butter) when I got home...250 yen + tax

This was so ono! a little sweet from the sakura bean paste and salty from the butter.

This area was nice to explore, I'll be back.

Pain de Campagne

2-2-23 Fujimidai

Kunitachi, Tokyo

Phone: 042.577.0565

Closed Mondays

Hours: 11:00-19:00

ps If you would like to see a few more photos/videos, please look here.

yabo tenmangu

Dunno what I was looking at, but I read something about Yabo Tenmangu's plum garden and the author was saying it being as pretty as Ikegami plum garden

So, I had the crazy notion to go check it out after lunch on Tuesday.

The funny thing is that this shrine is called Yabo, but the station you need to get off at is Yaho...

It is about an hour train ride from where we live and only a couple of minutes from the JR Yaho station.

Bummer that these were past their peak, the petals were fluttering to the ground whenever the wind blew.

Apparently there are 350 trees, Ikegami plum garden has 370 trees.

Will check this out again next year, hopefully I'll be able to catch them in full bloom...

It was interesting to check out this part of Tokyo.

I also got my hands on a taiyaki filled with sakura a from Naruto Taiyaki Honpo.

The weather is definitely warming up...have a safe weekend.

Yabo Tenmangu

5209 Yaho

Kunitachi, Tokyo

Phone: 042.576.5123

Open 24 hours