Winter Scene @ Imperial Palace Gardens: Feb. 5, 2011

Imperial Palace’s East Gardens are one of the must-see places for tourist in Tokyo and I often visit there.

Today, I walked around the gardens and enjoyed the winter scene.

The gardens have many plants. Evergreens include pine and bamboo. Cherry and other trees have no leaves at this season.

The yellow plum (ume) has just opened its flowers. It smelled so nice.

 I also found the white plum blossom.

Long-tail carps were swimming slowly in a pond in the Ninomaru Garden. The carp is a hybrid of Japanese and Indonesian carps.

I saw many foreign tourist as well as Japanese visitors in the gardens.

I always feel history and beautiful nature in the park.