Last week on the Japanese morning news, between two essentiel pieces of information like where to find the best pop-corn in town or which combini is offering the most competitive pumpkin pudding, there was a program about this year's autumn leaves. Be strong, because this is going to be a shock : as we had an especially rainy month of October because of the succession of typhoons that stroke the archipelago, the momiji (Japanese maple trees) are not as gorgeously colourful as they are supposed to be. The TV program was even comparing pictures of the same spots between last year and now, and the cruel reality is : 2013's autumn leaves are darker, irrugularly coloured, and more damaged than they should be. The Sunday photographers are bitterly disappointed, and the general public is lost, wondering if some areas have been preserved from the bad weather and could save the week-end letting see decently coloured autumn trees. That's a national tragedy, friends, a real national tragedy.
But don't loose faith. Never give up. The program was also delivering the results of a careful investigation, that revealed the few places where the tradition of watching koyo would be as great as usual. And in the ranking, they mentioned the Showa Kinen Koen that I visited first time last spring - remember the neverending field of cosmo ?... As a pathetic media-victim, I followed the instructions and paid a visit to this beautiful park located close to Tachikawa station. Behaving like a sheep ? Maybe. But have a look at this purely perfect autumn scenes and tell me if it wasn't the right thing to do.
A spoiled season ? Oh, come on...
Not too ugly for a bad year, uh ?
Showa Kinen Koen, the right place to be
And now, my favorite ginkos, my brothers and sisters the blond trees!
There may be a second round, so wait for the next autumn porn serie !