Sakura (cherry) blossom season in the metropolitan area is almost over. Having the sorrow at parting with the 2025 cherry blossom season, I am going to continue to show you some more of this year's cherry blossom scenes in Tokyo.
I recently visited Takaido on the Keio-Inokashira line, as I do every year. There were beautiful cherry trees on the bank of the Kanda River and along the track. I admired the blossoms in full bloom from the platform of Takaido station. It is a place filled with my memories, because I went to kindergarten in Takaido when I was a kid. I remembered that we kindergarten pupils often walked along the stream and track with our teacher. Where has the time gone?
Five minutes later, the west bound express train was approaching the station. It was the best timing for train shooting backed by the full-blown cherry trees. It's now or never... shooting. Thank goodness! Please look at the top photo. It’s trainset 1780 of the EMU Keio 1000 series. Trainset 1780 was displaying special plates on the front and back of the train during the cherry blossom season. The design of these rounded plates was taken from “Sakura (Cherry)”, which was once a famous overnight sleeper train operated by the Japanese National Railways. You can see the original Sakura plate design in my post in 2020. That brings back memories!
I fully enjoyed the full-blown cherry trees and train plate on the Keio-Inokashira line.
