Cherry blossom season has FINALLY arrived in Tokyo, Japan! We celebrated in this huge annual festival by partaking in Hanami (Japanese for flower viewing) and trying some favorite Japanese springtime snacks. 🍡
It has been a lifelong DREAM of ours to experience the sakura blooming in Japan, so we’re especially excited to share this with you. 🙂
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Cherry Blossom season has arrived!
0:20 Meguro River, cafe, & sakura cheesecake!
8:05 Chidorigafuchi Park
11:27 Yoyogi Park for Hanami
16:27 Zōjō-ji Temple, traditional dance, & sakura ice cream
20:16 Spaghetti & the Sakura train!
22:03 Thanks for watching! Subscribe for more adventures! 😀
38 Comments
The white cherry blossoms look like snow from a distance, which is really beautiful!
Their cheesecake feels very high-end and special!
That park is beautiful and well designed!
Hanami Dango is so cute and really feels like spring!
In fact, there are many varieties of cherry blossoms, and white is just one of them.
It is said that in Japan there are more than 600 varieties spread across the country, and 12 are common!
The flowering period, color, petal shape, size, etc. of each species are different!
Alan's expression when eating that ice cream is so funny. I didn't expect that your preferences are so different!
Your videos are so elegant, just like you!
Thank you so much for sharing such a beautiful video, really super great job! 👍😍👏
The landscape of cherry blossoms feels like you are in heaven
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Omg I was there two days ago it’s amazing. Feeling. So pretty. I was happy for it to be late blooming time
It is reported that this year the authority actually trimmed the sakura branches along the Meguro river. The cherry blossoms from both sides used to cover the river making a more dramatic and iconic scene. Still pretty though.
お饅頭や餅の飾りとして、桜🌸の塩漬けを使いますが、その塩漬けのフレーバーになっていたのかもしれませんね
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We can't wait to do this ourselves but while we wait this video will soothe that craving! 🫶
And that sakura cheesecake! 🤤
Japanese people have a habit of drinking bitter tea after eating something sweet…
私も恵比寿駅から目黒川迄散歩しながら桜🌸観て来ました。
桜の季節に日本にまた来日くださりありがとうございます。春の日本も楽しんでください。
I enjoyed your watching your video. Zojoji is a very significant temple as I believe it is the final resting place for several of the Tokugawa Shoguns and their families (excluding Ieyasu). You can see the Tokugawa 'AOI' family crest on the lanterns and
purple fabric between 18:42 and 18:47.
We just landed in Japan and this was the perfect video to watch while on the train! 🌸🤍
This is my favorite season. April is the beginning of the school year and corporate business and newly hired employees. It's fun watching the students and families on their way to attend entrance and orientation for schools, some attending a new school with their lives in front of them. It's fun to see young professionals heading for their first jobs and careers wondering what life has in store for them. Also watching the Sakura blooming, winter is over, and spring is in the air and new beginnings about it start.
our first time in japan and we lucked out with sakura season also. it's so magical!!
桜の映像が感動的に美しかったのにも増して、アレンの笑顔がかっこよくて印象的でした。
I'm glad you enjoyed cherry blossom viewing in Tokyo.
During this season, Japanese people are also captivated by the beauty of cherry blossoms.
The interplay between the colors of the cherry blossoms, the blue of the sky, and the green of the plants is indescribably beautiful.
Of course, there are many beautiful places to see cherry blossoms outside of Tokyo, so please continue to enjoy them.
Have a nice trip!
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Thanks for showing us around the park. They looked beautiful and I love the Sakura train so cute.
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よく、その場所でそれだけ人通りの少ない時間帯(早朝？)を狙えましたね。特等席をただでゲットしたようなもんでとても貴重な映像です、日本人でも中々巡り合わないひと気のない満開の桜並木の下(*‘∀‘)
Was this video filmed on your new camera? Quality looks awesome 😊
キレイ❤私も日本が恋しい🫶I miss Japan so much…
東京の桜の花もそろそろ終わります。
この週末にかなり散るかもしれませんが、散り際も"桜吹雪"と言います。花びらが舞い散る場面はとても美しいです。
これからは東北地方が満開になります。
5月くらいまでは桜前線を追って楽しめます。
余談ながら、4月の後半には茨城県なひたち海浜公園のネモフィラが圧巻の見頃を迎えます。
ネットでも画面がたくさん見られます。
その後6月からは紫陽花"オタクサ"が街に咲き乱れます。
機会があれば是非見に来て下さい。
What a calming video ❤
I was there 12 mnonths ago for last year's Sakura. It is totally magical especially when it "snows" pedals as you walk by. Put on the sound track from Lost in Translation and it feels like you are in a movie.
You are right about the Sakura being mostly white, very much so. Most people think they are pink but the pedals are white, the pink variety are usually bloom earlier, the plum blossoms. The Sakura that people know of are mostly white, at least from the ones i've seen this time of the year anyway.
Bro!!! New camera?? It literally looks phenomenal. Great music, commentary, and shots. You guys are fantastic!!
Such a beautiful video! Brought back so many memories of the Sakura when I was in Tokyo. ❤
お帰りなさい～🎵
また来てくれたのですね❗
美男・美女の、日本での美容室体験も見てみたいです🎵w
日本でゆっくりしていって下さいm(__)m
Ah SO beautiful!! We love Japan and it is definitely at the top of our bucket list to visit during Sakura season! Thanks so much for sharing!
こんにちは､美男美女のお二人共桜と共に似合ってましたよ🥰
日本の桜を魅力的に楽しく紹介していただき、ありがとう❗️
I like walking in Tokyo during cherry blossom season. This is… awesome 😍😍
I had previously seen a video of the three of them visiting Nara, so I'm happy to have come across a video of them in the cherry blossom season. That instrument is a wind instrument called a sho, which is written in kanji as "born from bamboo."
Cherry blossoms that bloom near rivers grow downward to reflect sunlight.
The same goes for the cherry blossoms near the pond.
Beautiful vidoe, thank you for sharing ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
🇯🇵🌸🇯🇵🌸🍦🌸🍡🇯🇵🍝♥🇯🇵 ありがとうございます。
この痛さは狙ってやっているのでしょうか？笑
バター、クリーム、砂糖、塩。あらゆる調味料、香料、パウダーの塊で味付けされた味覚しか持っていません。常に皮肉と馬鹿にしたフレーズしか言うことができません。🤭🤤
The most favored type of cherry blossom in Japan is the Somei Yoshino, which is almost white with a hint of pink. Cherry blossoms are beloved in Japan because they represent the spirit of the Japanese people. There is a famous Japanese short poem that goes:
敷島の大和心を人問わば朝日に匂う山桜花
"If one should ask about the soul of Yamato in Shikishima (Japan) , it is the mountain cherry blossoms that scent in the morning sun."
These cherry blossoms do not assert themselves too much with color or fragrance. They burst into bloom brilliantly for a short time and then scatter gracefully without withering. This transient beauty is considered the epitome of Japanese aesthetics.
Furthermore, the performances held at shrines are called Gagaku. The instrument that produces the peculiar sounds is known as a "sho (笙)."