Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

Finally, it was time for the headline event of this entire trip. We heard from Shashank and Sadhvi that some of the Sakura trees in the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden were in full bloom. So after reaching back to Tokyo via our bus and then checking-in to our hotel, we headed straight to Shinjuku. We ate some quick lunch and got into the park. As we got deeper and deeper, we witnessed the gorgeous Sakura trees. Enough of them had fully bloomed and the park was full of people clicking pictures left, right and centre. We did the same and walked around the park. While some areas only had a few blossomed trees, others had an entire row and spread of full bloom Sakura trees. It was beautiful and we finally felt lucky to be able to witness this usually elusive event. We decided we will visit again over the next few days as we would get to see the park blossom even more. We stayed in the park till 6pm, until it closed and then headed onwards to Ueno park to see it in the night.Read more