This was at the tail end of cherry blossom season, and there were almost no people in the park at 9:05am on a Friday morning. Compare this to LAST week, when there were 60,000 people in the park!
This week, there was one handful of photographers surrounding a single tree:
Last week, there were dozens at each and every tree:
This is how many picnickers there were this week:
And this is one small area of a very large park last week:
You haven't seen crowds until you've been in the immigration line entering Japan at Narita Airport on May 5th, or during cherry blossom season in Tokyo. The great thing about cherry blossom season is that people aren't trying to GET anywhere, they just want to sit, enjoy a beer or a cup of sake, and look at flower petals floating down in the breeze. Smiles all around!
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