the whole week the weather has been really cold, especially because of the strong wind. But since Saturday it has been getting a lot warmer, and at the moment its 20 degrees. It seems like the change in weather is all the people in Tokyo have been waiting for. Hanami season (Cherry Blossom season) has finally begun and everyone is out and about in parks and famous Hanami spots.
I also took the opportunity today to walk around my neighborhood a little bit and found the most amazing places. With the warm weather not only the cherry blossoms began to bloom but also a lot of other plants are getting green and colorful! Around the corner of my house is a small park with a playground where Sakura (Cherry) trees grow. Underneath families were sitting, eating, drinking and talking, and just enjoying the nice weather and the cherry blossoms, that is what Hanami is all about. A little bit behind the playground starts a long street lined with cherry trees. They are now all blooming in beautiful light pink and it looks just amazing.
Here are my impressions of today:
In the next couple of days I will go to some places famous for their sakura, and hopefully will be able to take some beautiful pictures there as well.
On another note, I tried the Japanese interpretation of radler, and it wasn't really bad, but it wasn't good either. I guess if you are german, and really in desperate need for a radler it will do, but other than that you should be drinking Japanese kinds of alcohol when in Japan.
On saturday I went around Akihabara (the electric town of Tokyo). It wasn't really my thing, and I actually felt kind of uncomfortable with all the geeks and otaku milling around young girls dressed up as maids trying to get them to come to a maid cafe. I left pretty quickly to go to Ikebukuro, my neighborhood where you can really buy anything you might want. They have a huge shopping mall, a gigantic department store and electronics stores but also normal small shops and streets with one small restaurant and izakaya next to the other. It is actually very convenient to live here. I was planing to do some shopping, but in the end didn't buy anything (not that that is a bad thing ;-)).
In the afternoon I met with Markus in Shibuya, we went first to the Irish Pub we had been the weekend before, and afterwards met his German and Japanese friends at TGIF to eat some burgers. They were amazing!
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