Cherry blossoms are making headlines in the news again. A computer glitch at the Meteorological Agency supposedly was the cause of the incorrect forecasts of the "official" cherry blossom season. Just so you know, in Tokyo the blossoms are now expected to open around March 23 instead of the original prediction of March 18. This tree, and several others seemed happy with an earlier date, though.
The utterly cute Children's Traffic Park (1-22-13, Naritanishi, Suginami) looks like a great place for kids to learn to ride a bike and the traffic rules. Bicycles, tricycles and pedal cars can be rented and ridden around this miniature town, with low traffic signs and signals. There are even pedal cars for adults in which the very young kids can ride along. It wouldn't surprise me if the rental is free, but we didn't ask. There's also a playground in the park (and many more elsewhere along the river) and an old locomotive.
The Omiya Hachimangu shrine (2-3-1, Omiya, Suginami) is a fairly large shrine that is said to have been built [originally] sometime in the 8th-12th century. There's a fair margin of error for guessing the exact year. The grounds are also quite beautiful, and South of the main building are a large number of portable shrines on display. The sun was setting, so no great photos this time, but I'll certainly be back.
1 comment:
Nice traffic park for kids... Though I wouldn't want my kids to learn about traffic there (they drive left). I like the similarities between your post and those recently made by Cabel on his weblog http://cabel.name/
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