Perhaps the best day we had in Japan was the day we road the train to Arashiyama. Near the station we rented bikes and then spent the day exploring north-eastern Kyoto on bicycles. I’ll show you some more pictures from this part of town and Sagano in future entries.

The above photograph is what things looked like during the first week of April. The cherry blossoms were in full bloom. Unfortunately, we had overcast skies so the picture isn’t that spectacular. The sakura tree was so large that I couldn’t get it all in the frame. Notice the posts that hold up the tree.

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1. Tokyo Sakura On March 26 we visited Shinjuku Gyoen (新宿御苑) for the first time. It was still a week or so too early for the peak of the cherry blossoms (sakura), but...
2. Nighttime sakura In Kyoto, and other places in Japan, you can view cherry blossoms (sakura) at night. Spotlights or lanterns are frequently used to get the desired affect....
3. Sakura at Himeji As mentioned in yesterday’s blog entry, there were some blossoming trees on the Himejijo grounds during the first week of April....
4. Arashiyama I took the above picture on March 29, 2007. As you can see, that’s just a little too early in the year for the cherry blossoms to be going nuts...
5. Sakura As promised, I took some cherry blossom (sakura) pictures of the Kanda River this morning. In the above photo some people are staking out a spot for flower viewing (hanami)....

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