Sakura Trees

The cherry blossom front has reached Tokyo! The trees will only be in bloom for about a week, so I've been trying to get my fill of tree-admiring while the opportunity lasts.

Here are some sakura trees around Kamata:

Pink sakura trees!

Ueno park is one of the most popular places to go see the sakura trees. If the internet is to be believed, there are over a thousand sakura trees there. It's a really popular place for 'hanami' or picnics under the trees during cherry blossom week. 

A giant lake in the middle of Tokyo, surrounded by sakura trees (and sky-risers). It was both nice and strange to see water birds in the middle of the city.

Unfortunately, everyone else had the same idea to visit Ueno park. Luckily I arrived early enough that I didn't have to stand in a queue a few hundred people long to get out through the train station gates!