Spring here in Japan goes hand-in-hand with Cherry Blossoms, when you think of one you should think of the other. Here there are many, many cherry trees. Even though the trees only have blossoms on them for a short amount of time - a week or two, that week or two is so pretty.
Around our area there are a lot of these trees and everywhere you go you can see them blooming with their pink and white flowers.
Last weekend when we went to Kyoto for our weekend road trip, there were many Cherry blossom trees there as well and it was great to get to see the city in full bloom.
Pretty much every park here has cherry trees and it is pretty easy to pick out a park while you are driving as the area looks pink/white white all the blossoms. Here the cherry blossoms arent just to look at, there are to enjoy too. Many parks string lights/lanterns from one cherry blossom to another and people get together and have picnics/hang out/have some drinks under the cherry tree. We took advantage of this the other day and went to our park around dusk and sat under the lights and ate our dinner.
Myla and I had gone a different night to see the lights but it was great to sit down and have dinner together as a family there. It may seem like a little thing but it was one of the coolest things we have done here. We really enjoyed it! Next to us there was another family eating their dinner around a little table about a foot off the ground that they had brought. Their kids were a little older - maybe 10 and 14 - and we thought what a nice tradition it would be to get everyone together under the Cherry blossoms every spring and have dinner together.
You never know what the future will hold, but who knows, maybe if we are in Japan again next year we will be able to have dinner under the cherry trees again and start our own little spring-time tradition.
Around our area there are a lot of these trees and everywhere you go you can see them blooming with their pink and white flowers.
Last weekend when we went to Kyoto for our weekend road trip, there were many Cherry blossom trees there as well and it was great to get to see the city in full bloom.
Pretty much every park here has cherry trees and it is pretty easy to pick out a park while you are driving as the area looks pink/white white all the blossoms. Here the cherry blossoms arent just to look at, there are to enjoy too. Many parks string lights/lanterns from one cherry blossom to another and people get together and have picnics/hang out/have some drinks under the cherry tree. We took advantage of this the other day and went to our park around dusk and sat under the lights and ate our dinner.
Myla and I had gone a different night to see the lights but it was great to sit down and have dinner together as a family there. It may seem like a little thing but it was one of the coolest things we have done here. We really enjoyed it! Next to us there was another family eating their dinner around a little table about a foot off the ground that they had brought. Their kids were a little older - maybe 10 and 14 - and we thought what a nice tradition it would be to get everyone together under the Cherry blossoms every spring and have dinner together.
You never know what the future will hold, but who knows, maybe if we are in Japan again next year we will be able to have dinner under the cherry trees again and start our own little spring-time tradition.
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