It's cherry blossom - "sakura" - time in Tokyo, and we've been enjoying the season. Today I went for a wonderful bike ride with a friend, Cathy, to see some "sakura" sights.
We rode through Aoyama Cemetery...
...where schoolchildren, old people and hipsters were lunching near or under the trees. That's the big event: standing or sitting near the blossoms, absorbing the atmosphere, and taking pictures of friends doing the same thing.
Then we rode to the Imperial Palace. You can't go inside the palace walls, but what we saw was delightful: the moat, the scenery from the palace gates.
I liked this refined couple.
And more photo-happy sakura visitors.
It was a lot of fun to be a tourist in our own city.
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