Tokyo Hanami 2019: Inokashira Park
Who misses Sakura flowers? I do, I do. Although at a point of the Hanami they do start to look a bit the same (as my friend Kay says, “like popcorn”), I think that Inokashira never looks better than during full sakura bloom. Only comparable to when it’s covered in snow! I still remember winter 2017… walking through snow-covered Inokashira…
Tokyo Hanami 2019: Shinjuku Gyoen
Come with me to Shinjuku Gyoen National Park, a sakura paradise in which 1500 cherry blossom trees are currently blooming into a white and pink extravaganza. Shinjuku Gyoen has more than 20.000 trees, of which around 1500 are Japanese sakura. Let me tell you the story of the first time I went to Shinjuku Gyoen. It was 2014, I was…
