And so we enter the wisteria.
Called 藤 fuji in Japanese, these beautiful hanging flowers start not long after the cherry blossoms finish. Most parks will have at least one or more giant wisteria trees that will give us hundreds of the gorgeous flowers.
They are usually purple, sometimes white. They give off a sweet scent that seems to attract just about every bee in the city, so there is a constant low buzz of hundreds of bees flying around. I think they are bumble bees, so they won't sting us, but they are big so they make some people nervous.
The only real downside to wisteria is that unlike the cherry blossoms which are spread out, the wisteria tree has limited space under it, meaning it is almost always very crowded making it hard to find free space.
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This is super cool, I always hear the nature in Japan is like no other place
You've heard right. Nature here is like a dream world.
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Awesome shots.. the vibrant purple is cool. 😀 Up here in the mountains, got plenty of trees lol, not that much in the way of flowers.
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You must be killin' it out here!
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Thanks 😃 They really love the flowers here in Japan.
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Awesome photos. I like the 4th one a lot. Fuji's colour is very gentle and beautiful. I miss Japan!
Thanks 😃
I hope you can visit back soon. Maybe covid will finally end this year and travel prices will start to come down to reasonable levels.
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