SAKURA-Cherry Blossom

The season of cherry blossoms has come:)

I visited some famous spots in Tokyo last week.

Firstly, let me share some photos of Chidorigafuchi.

This is located in the northwest of the Imperial Palace,

The 700 m-long pedestrian path was covered with the blossoms of about 260 cherry trees of different species.

Despite the fact that we visited on Monday, the waiting time of the boat was two hours.  We gave up riding a boat and headed to the next destination, Shinjuku Gyoen.

Here is also a representative spot for cherry blossom viewing in Tokyo.

We had to wait for 15 minutes to enter the gate...

Shinjuku Gyoen is a huge park, but was crowded with lots of people...

In Japan, you can enjoy cherry blossoms anywhere.

It is common that they are planted as street trees, like this.

I took a walk along the river of my neighborhood in the evening.

The cherry blossoms glow with the setting sun:)

There were few people in this park .

I could get this beautiful view all to myself:)

Thank you for dropping by!

Walk with a Blog Friend in a Field of Rapeseed

Visited Mother Farm which is famous for this field of rapeseed.

In Japan, we experienced very cold winter this year, so, I wanted to feel coming of spring!

With whom did I visit here?

YES! Sigrid from Willdommen im Hassberg-Garten

               

We enjoyed seeing goats, cows...

and pig race!:)

We hired my son as a driver, hahaha...:)

We enjoyed a superb view from this farm located on a hill:)

Oh, let me explain how to get to this farm from Tokyo.

Look at the Mt. Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan, floating on the Tokyo Bay!

To reach this Boso Peninsula in Chiba prefecture, we used a highway called Tokyo Aqua Line.

You can enjoy this ocean view from a parking lot floating on the bay.

Firstly, this highway took us straight to the entrance of the Aqua Line Tunnel. 

And when we reached daylight again at the end of the tunnel, we drove onto a small artificial island, a parking lot, called Umihotaru (which translates as "Sea Firefly").

This huge object is a cutter face of one of the slurry shield machine used to drill the undersea tunnel for this highway.

Ahead of here, we drove on this long bridge to go to the Chiba area.

After the Mother Farm, we visited Mt. Nokogiri, famous for this cliff, "Gigoku-Nozoki (Hell View)".

I'm happy to be able to get to know Sigrid through this blog! 

We both love flowers and plants, so, we could have a great time:)

She said it was freezing cold this winter in Germany.

We often have abnormal weather in Japan, as well...

How about in your country?

I'm sure we will meet again in the near future, Sigrid.
Thank you!!!

GoldCoast Australia-Second Honeymoon with Family

  

We went on our second honeymoon to Gold Coast in Australia after30 years.

I was deeply impressed to be able to come back to this beautiful place, full of memories for me.

Our married life started from this place.

After that we could have two sons...

I have been busy with raising children.

But my second son has finally reached the age of 20, which means the end of our parenting...

That's why, I wanted to come back here with our family in memory of the termination of nurturing:)

We visited Natural Bridge to see a fantastic scenery.

This park is located within a World Heritage listed area, which boasts Australia’s largest population of glow worms. 

We waited for sunset to see the starry heaven.

Unfortunately, I forgot to bring the tripod for my camera, so, I couldn't take a photo of glow worms...

The attached below is the photo I brought from other website. We could see this beautiful view with the naked eye.

And we visited Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, and I could meet koalas that I met 30 years ago, as well.

We could enjoy the horse racing on the beach to my surprise.

Parenting period is short in retrospect.

　

Thank you for being born as our children.

We are a family forever.