I’ve been traveling to Japan for years, but last week was the first time I’ve ever managed to be there during the annual flowering of the cherry blossoms. They don’t flower for long, so it was purely good luck that I was there.

Catching the train back to Shinjuku from one of our meetings, we traveled along the side of a waterway that was flanked with flowering cherry blossom trees. It was little more than a storm water drain, but it was utterly beautiful.

Unfortunately, due to a very full, long day of meetings, my only opportunity to get out and take some photographs was going to be early on Tuesday morning before my bus to the airport. As luck would have it, Tuesday morning was wet and cloudy, in fact, the sun had barely shown itself by the time I had to get on the bus, so I’ll have to make my do with the memories of what I saw (and other folks on Flickr) until next year