Hanami

Spring in Tokyo brings a profusion of flowers. The climate is warm enough for flowers even in winter but when as the days grow longer and warmer it seems as though every hedge and tree blooms.
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15 years ago, our town planted cherry trees along both banks of the Meguro River which runs not far from our house. The trees began their annual flowering last week and we monitored their progress every day as we commuted to work on the trains which pass over them.