Tokyo - Day 1
We came to Tokyo during cherry blossom season, early April 2025. We had already spent 10 days in China, we arrive in Tokyo exhausted. We heard that the cherry blossoms would be illuminated in this park. There were signs in subway stations telling us this. After a long day of exploring Tokyo separately, we convened at Meiji Jingu Gyoen and made our way to Chidori-ga-fuchi park to see the illuminated cherry blossoms.
Big Torii
This morning I went to the JCII Camera Museum. My wife didn’t want to join me there, so she went to see some other shrines. The camera museum was awesome and did not allow photography. I bought a book of the cameras that they have at the museum. It is a nicely made book with lots of photographs and specifications of many historical Japanese cameras. In Japan, I tended to obey the no photography signs.
I texted my wife telling her I was finished with the camera museum. We decided to meet up at Meiji Jingu.
Meiji Jingu
A short train ride from the shrine, we travel to Chidori-ga-fuchi park. We came for the sakura blossoms advertised in the train station. We were not expecting the cute boats in the moat.
Boating in Chidorigafuchi at Sunset
Boats in Cherry Petals
The moat is well maintained with nice cherry trees, stone walls, and trimmed grass slopes.
The walls of the moat
The best spot to see illuminated cherry trees on the moat was overrun with locals and tourists alike. The police were courteously asking people to move along and to stop congregating. Some had megaphones. I can’t understand Japanese but I could tell they wanted people to move along. Here is a photo of the crowd all trying to get the best photo!
The crowd trying to get the best picture of the sakura
The photo we waited for
After this we went to a duck ramen spot. There was a coin operated vending machine that prints a ticket for you. You hand the ticket to the host and they make your ramen for you. The duck ramen was so good. I was feeling to tired and exhausted I couldn’t finish the ramen. Ramen TOMO Tokyo.
Delicious Duck Ramen
