Sakura 2015

Some full bloom sakura photos for this year.

More photos at :

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153741971173572.1073741828.565273571&type=1&l=6d60f12b6a

After seeing all this beauty, I guess I'm ready to fight for another year.

K-chan logs out ～～

満開！Full bloom!

Some pictures I took today in Ueno park and the area around it.

Kyuudou .. me want..

cutest thing ever （≧ω≦）

That's all for today!

Sakura Quest Final

Here comes the post of the extremely extraordinary special great nice shots with the extremely nice special blue sky(TM).
Watch on your own responsibility and remember HQ for videos!

Ueno Park 6th of April

Trying to follow the style of our tea master, Ocha dono

Notice the sakura petal snow!
Scroll down to see a video of this.

More than 1000 trees in full bloom

Natural VS Artificial

Tokyo university 8th of April(Today!)

「まるで雪みたい！」というセリフが一番最初に思い浮かんだ。
It reminded me of this :
秒速５センチメートル　５ Centimeters per second

Sakura petals falling down like snow are one of the most beautiful things I saw. They carry this mysterious feeling of beauty mixed with light sadness on very short lasting wonderful moments of life...
When I see aging people stop by and stare at the nice scene, I understand their thoughts and feelings.

I hereby finish my sakura quest posts series!
The new semester started and deadlines started to follow me one after the other~ The more I advance in research the harder tasks become.
Will do my best!

Sakura Quest : Day2 満開です!!

Notes :
-The first part of this post are pictures/ videos near the place where I live.
-The second part are from Ueno park.
-All pics and videos are fresh! Taken today! By K-chan!
-High quality version of the videos is available. Make sure to see in HQ!
-Enjoy and comment plz!

I go to my lab 7 days a week. Today was Sunday so I took my time taking pictures for sakura in the neighborhood and in Ueno park which is -luckily- a 15min walk from my lab.

Part 1 : SAKURA near by ~ 近所の桜

Taking a video on bike.


View from Chiyoda line from Ayase to Kitasenju station.

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このポストは「天日の世界」の提供でお送りします〜

Part 2:SAKURA＠UENO PARK : 上野公園の桜

Live from Ueno park

Pics could have been better if the sky was totally clear..
I remember spring skies here from last year..they can never be as clear as they are in Fall.

Sakura at ueno was just wonderful.
No words or videos can describe it.
FULL bloom...and FULL OF PEOPLE!
I learned a lesson : Don't go to ueno park on Sundays!

And the Sakura Quest continues..
Look forward for more~

アラブのお花見＠井の頭公園

井の頭公園はもう少しだけで満開って感じだったけど天気がよくて気持ちよかった〜

そうそう！Hさんもいました！
お茶さんも！！
真ん中の二人はレバノン人のLさんとNさん

私さん、Hさんの妹、Hさん

今度のポストもお楽しみに!
それでは、失礼しまーす。

今日のベストショット＠上野公園

桜前線情報：：Sakura forecast

Today's weather forecast：　The Sakura wave will start moving gradually north the country. This will be accompanied by sakura that start blooming on the days shown on the map for each area. The wave will reach its peak after one week of the dates shown. After that it will gradually weaken and light rains of sakura petals are expected.
..(I made this up but it has a lot of facts)

The sakura wave front map

The Japan meteorological agency released the sakura forecast recently. Click here to check.
In this season, you can see information about sakura blossoms and the degree of blooming after each weather forecast.

A picture from the web

Autumn leaves as well as Sakura blossoms have their own forecasts in Japan. Especially sakura trees, they have a very special place in the heart of all Japanese people. And of course in mine~

Most areas are still in the initial bud stage

It's the season where people start checking forecasts and planning their Hanami.
Here in Tokyo, most Sakura is still in the TSUBOMI = bud state, but some single trees here and there are already in full bloom. Different types I guess.

I can't believe that one year has already passed since I was last checking sakura information sitting on my desk in my room in Jordan..then to find myself after few weeks doing a real Hanami..

Anyway, I'm planning to take a lot of great sakura pictures this year so look forward for this!

桜、、大好き～:: Sakura~ I love it so much~

*Note* I added links to the Japanese terms I used. Please click them and see what they mean. And for your convenience, I made them open in a new window/tab! :p

Today was such a full day. It is the week end and I can't just sit in my room doing nothing.
The weather was sunny and warm..that was great! So I went out for a walk and luckily found some nice sakura trees that are still fighting for survival!

I think anyone who sees me will guess that I am seeing Sakura for the first time, because I took like 3 or 4 pictures of each sakura tree I pass by! Actually I think that I have no problem in traveling all over Japan and taking pictures for all Sakura trees! I just love this tree so much... a new OTAKU category : sakura otaku(^_^)

At noon time, I was supposed to go to the AKAMON to meet S-san ;a participant in the Japan delegation that came to Jordan last September.
I haven't tried to go to the Hongou campus alone so far, so today was my first time and it was such a big success!^^
This is the Tokyo metro map.

All I had to do is to go from Shibuya station to Akasakamitsuke station by Ginza line(orange), then change to the Marunouchi line(Red) and go to Hongou san choume station. A walk for 7 minutes then here you are in front of the AKAMON. You can see on the map above.

This is a good chance to introduce a great website that tells you about all the possible routes from a source to destination, then the decision is up to you (according to cost, time, number of transfers...). Click here and try it! (Press the "english" button after you open the page).
I think it will be very useful for anyone new to Tokyo metro.

The AKAMON (Red gate). It is one of the Tokyo University gates. This one is very famous..more famous than the main gate itself. A lot of people come and take pictures of it.

There, S-san introduced me to a group of friends and we did OHANAMI. I was really glad to do my first OHANAMI in TOUDAI Hongou Campus!
The sakura trees were in their HAZAKURA state(when it starts loosing blossoms and leaves start to grow), so with each breeze a sakura snow falls on us.
That was really fun, thank you minna!! ( ^_')b

OHANAMI

Sakura on my way back near my lodge

On my way back, I entered KOMABA KOUEN(Komaba park) for the first time. Its a park near my lodge.

I discovered some sakura trees that look like they had their MANKAI(full bloom) yesterday. I took some pictures but they weren't good because it was a little dark.(I wish I had entered this park from the beginning!!!).
So I decided to go there tomorrow very early in the morning and take good pictures before the blossoms disappear.

Other pictures I took today that are worth posting :

Shibuya Crossing..one of the busiest crossings ever.


This is in Shibuya too..Do you recognise the girl picture on the building? :D
It is the Sensei from the drama, GOKUSEN..lol some of my nihongo class students will definitely download this picture! ;)

And now I am in the lounge where we have free and fast internet, blogging about today.
Wow I really write much (@_@)..but you know.. I want to enjoy blogging while I still have time to do so!
See you next post!