Koishikawa Botanical Garden, Hakusan, Tokyo (February 15th)

Prunus × kanzakura (Kanzakura)

We went to Koishikawa Botanical Garden to see some plum blossoms. We found a few kinds of violets blooming already and a tree of cherry blossom starting to fall, too. Some of the plums have really interesting shapes of flower.


Prunus × kanzakura (Kanzakura)


Camellia kissi (Togariba-sazanka).
It is so tiny flower of winter camellia.


Viola grypoceras (Tachitsubo sumire)


Viola yedoensis (Noji sumire).
I like the color of this kind of violet.


Viola yedoensis (Noji sumire)


Viola diffusa (Tsukushi sumire).
The leaves were already there.


Tilia miqueliana (Bodaiju).


Plum blossom (Yae Matsushima, 八重松島)


Plum blossom (Suigetsu, 酔月)


Plum blossom (Kokinran, 古金欄)


Plum blossom (Uguisu kakushi, 鶯隠)


Plum blossom (Tekken, 酈懸)


Plum blossom (Ou-bai, 黄梅)

Nogawa Park (February 14th)

Shibateranthis pinnatifida (Setsubun-sou)

We went to Nogawa Park to see Shibateranthis pinnatifida (Setsubun-sou) flowers. They were close to the end of peak, but we were able to find some nice flowers, too. We also found some violet flowers.


Anemone pseudoaltaica (Kikuzaki Ichige)


Edgeworthia chrysantha (Mitsumata)


Petasites japonicus (Fukinotou)


Shibateranthis pinnatifida (Setsubun-sou)


Shibateranthis pinnatifida (Setsubun-sou)


Viola hondoensis (Aoi Sumire)


Viola hondoensis (Aoi Sumire)


Viola hondoensis (Aoi Sumire)


Hamamelis japonica (Mansaku)


Crows in Nogawa river...It was pretty hot today even for them.


Prunus cerasoides var. canpanulata (Kanhi-zakura)

Kyodo-no-mori Park, Bubaigawara (February 11th)

Plum blossoms.

We went to Kyodo-no-mori Park in Bubaigawara. There is a big plum garden there.
The place was filled with a nice fragrance of plum.

Sawai and Mitake (February 8th)

Shining surface of the water.

We went to Mitake and Sawai to enjoy walking by the Tama river.
We had lunch at a nice Soba restaurant, Tamagawa-ya.
At Sawai, we tasted a little bit of Sake and walked by the river to Ikusabata Sta.


Soba restaurant in Mitake, Tamagawa-ya.


Soba noodles with tempura.


Plum blossoms.


Veronica persica (Oo-inu-no-fuguri)


Tama river.


Salix gracilistyla (Neko yanagi)


Tama river.