It's canola season in Tokyo! Spring has arrived. Hamarikyu, the former family gardens of the Tokugawa Shogunate, has possibly the only canola field in central Tokyo. Even though canola, or nanohana as it the local variety is called, is commonly eaten here as a vegetable, seeing it in a field always reminds me of home. In Australia a canola field often goes to the horizon, whereas here, bright yellow flowers of Hamarikyu are juxtaposed against Shiodome's towering skyscrapers. The novelty of it has yet to wear off.
The plums blossoms and peonies of Hamarikyu, and its tidal ponds are more famous; however it is the canola that I go back to see every year.
Plum blossoms are also in bloom at the moment
Details on Hamarikyu
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