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20/11/2016

is that all you ever do

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Hello, yes, we went to another garden this weekend. It is called Koshikawa Korakuen (小石川後楽園). It was lovely. The changing leaves festival has just started and continues on until 4th December if I remember rightly. Not all the leaves had changed yet as you can see from the below photos, but it was still lovely nonetheless. It was busy though! We had to queue to get in, not long, perhaps around 15 minutes or so. It did sort of ruin it there being so many people in the garden, couldn’t really relax and just stand still and enjoy the scenery. ...

07/11/2016

day out at the park

We’ve had some beautiful autumnal weather here recently in Tokyo. What better way to spend days like that than outside enjoying nature? So that’s exactly what we did this weekend! We went to a couple of parks quite close to home and actually, we hadn’t been to one of them before and it’s absolutely stunning. It’s a traditional Japanese garden, it even had a Zen garden which I didn’t take pictures of because, well, it’s good to see in real life but not on photos, I think. We will definitely be going back there as the leaves hadn’t quite changed ...

31/07/2016

july memories and august wish list

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Some things I did in July which I didn’t mention previously

(The trees are nearby. They look like they are in a very tranquil spot in this picture, but in fact quite a busy road runs alongside them and if you look close enough, you can see Tokyo Tower just peeping through.)

Lanterns at the Tanabata Festival at Zojoji (Temple).