Hi Everybody! We were lucky, yesterday, to have some very clear, blue skies. Today was a gray and rainy day! It wasn’t the best day for taking pictures, but, as always, the sakura trees were still lovely. Here is my Kyoto sakura update for today. You can see in yesterday’s Keihan sakura report that almost […]

Hello Everybody! Today was a beautiful day! It was supposed to rain all weekend, but most of the day we had beautiful blue skies! Welcome to my Kyoto cherry blossom report for today! Today, I started off by going past the the Kamogawa River in Kyoto. You cans see the sakura lining the eastern bank […]

Hello Everyone! Today was another busy day of sakura blossom hunting in Kyoto! Here is my cherry blossom report for today. I went with friends to five places, today. We went to Kaege Incline, Nanzen-ji Temple, Eikan-do Temple, and Shinnyo-do Temple, and then walked along the Philospher’s Path. We saw sakura blossoms in full 100% […]

Hi Everyone, It was a beautiful day today! We’ve had some rain the last few days, so we were so happy to see clear, blue skies for part of the day, today! I went to four places in Kyoto today: Kiyomizu-dera Temple, To-ji Temple, the Kamogawa River near Keihan Gion Shijo Station, and to nearby […]

Hello Again! Here’s today’s sakura report for Kyoto. In most places, the sakura trees are 80-100% in bloom. Today, we traveled a bit to see some places outside of Kyoto City. Of course, we took a quick walk down Tatsumi-dori, in Gion, to see how that was doing. Then we went to Uji City, a […]

Hello Everyone! Today, we took a late afternoon walk in Kyoto. As usual, we started off in Gion, then walked to Chion-in Temple’s Sanmom Gate, and into Maruyama Park for an early evening stroll through the food stalls to the centerpiece of the park, a huge, old weeping sakura tree. We walked back to Gion […]

Hello Everyone! It’s been a busy week taking pictures of my favorite trees, sakura, the Japanese cherry trees. They are blooming all around Kyoto, now. Some species are fully in bloom, with every bud open, and others are only 30% open. Every day, many more blossoms pop open. It is such a beautiful time in […]

Hi Everybody! I’m so excited! The sakura are just beginning to pop out of their buds, and the weather is beautiful! You can feel the excitement in the air in Kyoto. Today, we went to the Gion District of Kyoto, Walked along the Kamo Gawa River, and took another stroll through the Imperial Palace to […]

Hi Everyone! I’m back in Japan, just in time for sakura! We took a walk in Kyoto to see if any sakura had bloomed, yet. We only found a few tress in bloom. There were a few weeping sakura trees, and a couple of early blooming species, but the buds on the main treas were […]