Sakura Viewing - hanami 2

Sakura are pretty much at full bloom now.  Here is the tree next to the campus Family Mart:

and view from my lab window - you can spot the sakura easily:

So, not to miss a hanami chance (might be a bit rainy on the weekend), I went from school to see how the sakura are looking along the yamazakigawa river.  I got off at the Sogo Rehabilitation Center subway station and walked to the river from there.  Here is an interesting crab restaurant. kani (かに) is crab; ya (や - typically written in kanji 屋) is shop/restaurant):

 An entrance to a nice house - quite a number of nice looking houses in that area:

A small house with a nice sakura tree and other greenery:

 You know  you are getting close...

 And finally reached the river.  Lots of people viewing sakura.

 Zoom in on that:

 So basically full bloom - pretty sweet:

 So fluffy... makes you want to eat them:

 The path under the sakura trees is nice:

 Some of these trees looked pretty old:

 Farther in along the river:

 This continues for a few kilometers:

 Kinda looks like snow:

 Still not shedding much petals:

 And continuing...

 There is even sakura blooming on the bark!

 Sometimes, there are these areas you can go down closer to the river:

 Not bad for a self photo with no preview:

 Continuing on...

 Looking back (reaching the sports complexes):

 A different kind of sakura - brighter colour:

 Not only sakura is blooming:

 Was getting dark already - in front of the large stadium that had something going on since lots of people were streaming in:

 I like the way the branches are parallel to the slope of the river canal:

 And reaching the end of the canal (near Aratamabashi):

The trees are illuminated in the dark but my foot wasn't feeling too well (again, too much walking!) so I went for sushi at Aratamabashi and then took the subway back home.