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Peonies As Big As Dinner Plates!
If you could smell these right now, you’d be in heaven. Nishiarai Daishi Temple, Tokyo
Not to be outdone by the cherry blossoms, azaleas and wisteria, the peonies of Tokyo come into their glory in May and June! First the big boys, like these at the Hama-Rikyu Garden, then the lovely fragrant ones at Nishiarai Daishi Temple.
Hama-Rikyu Garden, Hamamatsucho
Hama-Rikyu Garden, Hamamatsucho
Hama-Rikyu Garden, Hamamatsucho
Hama-Rikyu Garden, Hamamatsucho
Hama-Rikyu Garden, Hamamatsucho
Hama-Rikyu Garden, Hamamatsucho
Blooming plants get their own parasols at Nishiarai Daishi Temple.
If you’d like to visit the Hama-Rikyu Teien garden or Nishiarai Daishi temple or any of the beautiful gardens in Tokyo, directions & maps are on my website, The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had.
And just for fun, here are the eleven strangest shrines in Tokyo, with all the inside scoop on the resident gods’ superpowers. One of them is at Nishiarai Daishi temple!
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Beautiful pictures! Loved the umbrella one the best. I had to scroll it down so that at first I didn’t know what the red thing was. It almost looked like spiral stairs.
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Thank you so much! Now I can die happy. I love the parasols too, but it was really hard to figure out how to take a good picture of them. I think it’s great that you thought they were something else first, then realized what they were!
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