Year-end lights in Tokyo: Dec 26-30, 2022

Tokyo is decorated with various illuminations in the year-end season.

 

The light-up decoration in the Marunouchi-Nakadori street is famous.

The street is quite near from the Tokyo Station.

 

Hundreds of trees on the street are decorated with small lights. The lighting starts in the afternoon.

I found many people enjoying the scene.

 

The combination of skyscrapers and year-end lights was impressive in the Otemachi area, central Tokyo. Half moon was in the sky. (See also the top photo)

 

Small towns, like Kyodo in Setagaya City, also have year-end illuminations in their streets.

 

 

Winter plants and flowers: Dec 26-30, 2022

 

The Christmas season is over and we have a few days before the end of the year.

I saw various winter plants and flowers during my walks.

Many deciduous trees have already lost their leaves.

This is a scene in the Hanegi Park, in Setagaya City, western Tokyo.

 

Some trees, however, still kept leaves. Gingko trees in Otemachi area, central Tokyo, kept yellow leaves. I wondered if it was the influence of the global warming.

 

I found some flowers in the winter air.

Japanese apricot (ume) flowers were open at a temple in Setagaya City. There was a half moon in the sly behind. (See also the top photo)

This is an unseasonal apricot blossom in the Hanegi Park.

I found some other flowers in the parks, temples and walking paths.

This is a photo of daffodil flowers.

 

This is aloe flowers.