Blog - Sakura #1: Shinjuku Chūō-kōen
Sakura #1: Shinjuku Chūō-kōen
Finally, spring is here and Tokyo is slowly (but surely) getting pink!
This year again I'm planning to take sakura pictures in a few different locations.
Yesterday we had great weather, and we did a nice bicycle ride through Higashi-Kōenji, Shinjuku and down to Ikejiri-Ōhashi in Meguro-ku. The first place where I found a substantial amount of sakura was Shinjuku Chūō-kōen, of which my best shots are below.
You can see the Shinjuku Park Hyatt hotel, which was featured in "Lost in Translation", in the center of the first picture.
Also a few close-ups in my moblog.
Posted on April 4, 2005 at 14:25 | Tweet
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Wow, looks like a lot of sakura are in full bloom in shinjuku already. I have not noticed any like that yet. Maybe tomorrow?
Posted by Roy on April 4, 2005 at 19:54
By the way, I notice you host most of these pictures in Flickr. I'm wondering what the benefit of that is?
Posted by Roy on April 4, 2005 at 19:57
My first reason for using Flickr (only for pictures I take with my camera) is that I like the tagging. Also the community aspect is fun, and as a bonus it saves me some disk space.
The only thing I don't really like is the fixed thumbnail sizes. I'd like a bit bigger than 500x (like 640x) and thumbnails in between 100x and 240x (which I think is a big gap).
My Flickr page is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chipple/
I'm looking forward to finding more sakura everywhere this week. :)
Posted by Patrick on April 4, 2005 at 22:00
すごい!金曜日井の頭公園に行ったけど、人でとてもこんでいた。日本でみんなは全部花見をするね...明日たぶん新宿にも行きます....
Posted by Michelle on April 10, 2005 at 01:32
井の頭公園に行って見たいけど今年は行けないかもしれない。きれいですね！
昨日は築地あたりにある浜離宮恩賜庭園[1]に行きました。
今日は、もんじゃ屋形船[2]に乗って花見できるかな…
[1] http://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/kouen/park.cgi?id=53
[2] http://www.4900.com/
Posted by Patrick on April 10, 2005 at 11:06