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.