A Walk Around Inokashira Koen

In Search of the Last of the Momiji

Inokashira Park is the closest of the bigger parks near my house. It is extremely beautiful in the changing seasons. I took the opportunity of the first sunny day when I had nothing else to do, to take a walk there with Dad’s heavy duty Nikon camera in search for the last of the Momiji – the Maple trees. Most usually lose their leaves by this time in the rest of Japan. But Tokyo is warmer, and December 2008 was even warmer than before, so there were still many trees with leaves still changing their colour before dying out. Here are some photographs of what I saw…