Recent Posts Tagged With 'cherry blossoms'

• Hanami - hanafubuki spells the end for 2009

  Posted on Sunday April 12th, 2009 at 09:39 in sakura, tokyo, cherry blossoms, hanami, meguro river, kinuta park

  I learned this week that there is a special word for the flurry of petals raining down in the breeze - 花吹雪 (hanafubuki) - which is a beautiful sight of tiny pink flakes floating down from above.  My Japanese friends especially love hanafubuki,...

• Hanami at Nagasaki Peace Park

  Posted on Thursday April 9th, 2009 at 08:40 in sakura, cherry blossoms, hanami, nagasaki, a-bomb, mechakucha, genbaku

  Does this look like the centre of atomic destruction?  It was hard to imagine that these sakura, just coming out, are in the park that marks the hypocentre of the Nagasaki atomic bomb explosion.  Nagasaki has recovered and is now a very scenic, c...

• Sakura season in Nakameguro

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 22:40 in sakura, tokyo, cherry blossoms, meguro river, nakameguro

   I was at Nakameguro last night, with a few thousand of my newest Tokyo friends, to enjoy the sakura along the Meguro River now at full bloom.  There was a carnival atmosphere as people walked along the river, sat on plastic sheets and drank sake/b...

• Sakura-ga-oka Sakura Namiki

  Posted on Tuesday March 31st, 2009 at 09:41 in sakura, tokyo, shibuya, cherry blossoms, hanami, sakuragaoka

  Here are some photos taken tonight from my mobile phone camera of the hill leading up from Shibuya Station to the Sakura-ga-oka district - appropriately named at this time of year, with the row of cherry blossoms.  Bring on the weekend and hanami! ...