There are still many great places for cherry blossom viewing in Tokyo that I haven’t been to yet, but given the sunny spring weather this weekend we were again going somewhere further. Looking southwest in the Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県), a […]
The sakura season (cherry blossom) in early Spring is a big thing in Japan. But just a few weeks after is the flowering season for shibazakura (literally: lawn cherry)(芝桜). It’s a completely different type of plant that grows close to […]
The “Golden Week” vacation this year was all for flower-viewing! After seeing the amazing Nemophila (“baby blue eyes”) fields 2 days ago (), we’re off again for another day trip, this time to see the “miraculous” Wisteria (藤), in the […]
Hitachi Seaside Park (ひたち海浜公園) I was captivated when I first saw a photo of this – an endless carpet of blue flowers as if a extension of the sky. It’s actually a large field of Nemophila (or commonly called “baby […]
It was almost Golden Week. I had made a Fuji-related trip around the same time in the past two years, so I thought might as well make it a tradition. Also same as before I based my trip on a […]