Azalea Festival @ Nezu Shrine: April 22, 2018

Where is the best place to see azalea blooming in Tokyo? Nezu Shrine in Bunkyo ward is probably one of the places to be answered.

I visited the shrine.

There are about 3000 azalea shrubs in the shrine. They include about 100 kinds of azalea.

The flowers are pink, red, white, orange, yellow, purple and many others.

There were many visitors, including foreign tourists, there.

The azalea garden was first developed about 300 years ago in the Edo era.

The flowers opened earlier this year than usual because of warm spring. What I enjoyed today were late-open flowers. Early-open flowers were already over.

Azalea and fresh green : April 21, 2018

We have warm spring days this year in Tokyo. The temperature sometimes went up to more than 25 degrees.

Leaves grow faster than usual. Some flowers started to open earlier.

I confirmed the circumstances while I was walking in Setagaya ward.

The leaves of tulip trees are growing day by day.

Ume (Japanese apricot) and cherry trees are now coved with fresh green leaves.

We have cherry blossom about a month ago in the end of March (earlier than usual). Now, we have azalea blossom in many part of Tokyo
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I enjoyed various types of azalea flowers in Hanegi park.

I also found azalea trees in the walking paths.

The season is turning to early summer.