flowers - Noemi Noemi

8 août 2015

Hanabi 2015

It's not a surprise : in August, one should admire the Japanese fireworks. This year, I was invited to watch the "fire flowers" from Edogawabashi park, in Eastern Tokyo. After the Atami fireworks on the sea, and, the Nagano fireworks in the mountains,...

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Tags: japan, night, summer, matsuri, flowers, tokyo tower, fireworks, pretty pop, lights, beautiful, edogawabashi

9 mai 2015

Tokyo spring - Light & Shadow

So the sakura are gone, weather is unstable, we are expecting the rainy season to start in a few weeks and a pityless summer heat to follow... But let's cheer up, because Tokyo at spring can be so beautiful. As a flower maniac, I go where it blossoms....

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Tags: colors, garden, tokyo, holidays, spring, green, park, golden week, flowers, perfection, peony, ueno, sunshine

6 mai 2015

What does the fox says ? - Nezu Jinja

Welcome to Nezu jinja, a peaceful shrine located in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo - peaceful except when azaleas are blossoming ! Like Nezu, many shrines in Japan are dedicated to Inari, a deity of harvest and prosperity. In most of them, you will find stone foxes...

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Tags: japan, tokyo, holidays, spring, beauty, weekend, flowers, shrine, nezu, azaleas, greens, tsutsuji

6 mars 2015

Spring is back

Every year, before the sakura decadence, elegant plum tree flowers blossom at every street corner in various shades of pink. You even don't need to go to the park, for the plum trees are everywhere in private gardens and small local yards. Let me introduce...

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Tags: japan, tokyo, spring, street, sky, pink, weekend, sun, flowers, suginamiku

24 mai 2014

Too green, to bad - Mifuneyama

Ok, this time I screwed up. I missed the azaleas in Mifuneyama (Saga, Kyushu). It was supposed to be covered with flowers (sight). Well, of course it's still beautiful, but... anyway. It's not like I had crossed the whole country in the middle of the...

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Tags: japanese, spring, green, south, nature, golden week, kyushu, trip, flowers, breath, mifuneyama, region

25 avril 2014

Nezu Jinja azaleas

How could I have spent 5 spring seasons in Tokyo without paying a visit to Nezu Shrine (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo) when the tsutsuji (Japanese azaleas) are blossoming? It's just like... like... A herd of pink and white sheeps. Strawberry-vanilla bushes. A matress...

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Tags: japanese, colors, season, tokyo, spring, beauty, nature, flowers, shrine, ohanami, bunkyo, nezu, parc

3 avril 2014

Cherry up! (part 2)

Do you want some more? Fine. Ohanami must go on! The most convenient sakura spot for me is defitely Megurogawa, the thin canal running from Gotanda to Ebisu. It's only five minutes from my office, so I can escape during the lunch break and cry with hapiness...

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Tags: tokyo, spring, beauty, cherry blossoms, sakura, love, Meguro, megurogawa, nature, pink, flowers

8 mars 2014

Ume festival at Yushima Tenjin

In two weeks, the sakura will start to blossom, luring admirers from the five continents. But don't forget that this is the blossoming ume plum-trees that really open the hanami season in Japan. Shy, discrete, perfumed ume flowers that the Japanese were...

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Tags: colors, season, tokyo, spring, beauty, hanami, pink, flowers, relax, life is beautiful, ume, haru

16 février 2014

Brave

Against the ice storm, winds, and heavy snow weighing on the trees, the delicate plum flower is blossoming anyway. Because she's brave. She's a valiant little flower. She can do it. Her strong heart and discrete beauty will prevail. From Higashi-Matsubara...

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Tags: japanese, tokyo, sky, trees, snow, flowers, ume, higashi-matsubara

13 mai 2013

Painting the roses red

Shinjuku gyoen is my favorite oasis in Tokyo. Of course I love Korakuen's sweet hills, Rikugien's flaming maple leaves, and Hamarikyuen's calm waters, but the western Shinjuku gyoen is the very best of the capital's parks. Imagine a smooth grass carpet...

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Tags: colors, shinjuku, sweet, spring, park, sky, happy, sunday, weekend, flowers