You guys are gonna love where I'm taking you today and we're leaving in just one minute

But before that about a year ago

You guys inspired me to put up prints of some of my Instagram in Twitter posts

But there's one shot that I missed last year

I really like how this turned out. It's this one right here

I've made bags and clocks and everything out of this and I'm actually gonna give this one to one of you guys. I may even

Personalize it a little bit, for now. We've got a whole day ahead of us. So let's get going out

All right

So understatement of the year Tokyo has an abundance of amazing places

To check out that Sakura or cherry blossoms, but the downside is most of them end up looking like this

Now depending on what you're looking for that can either make or break the

atmosphere and there are plenty of places without the crowds but most of them are either really small or

hidden. So today I'm gonna share my three favorite spots that are anything but small

but are definitely hidden. Since all the spots are fairly accessible from Asakusa

we're gonna start in Asakusa today and despite the fact that I do own a bicycle

I think we're gonna rent a bicycle because you can go to these places by train

But I feel like it's a little more fun on a spring day to go out on a bicycle.

You're gonna want to start by finding the rocks shopping center and on the other side of it closest to the street

Underground is a really cheap bicycle rental place that I always recommend my friends when they come to visit me in Asakusa.

It's even really hidden on the sign too.

All right, so that didn't exactly go as planned

They were out of bicycles, you know, and I'm just gonna zip home and grab mine. We'll be on our way.

So that picture that I took for the print is taken right here

It's an insanely popular spot and although it's almost dead now when it's in full bloom

It's so beautiful. Let me take two seconds just to show you

And this isn't even one of the spots that I wanted to introduce today. Its just I've been wanting to make a print for you guys

From this spot since last year, but would you believe that just a couple dozen meters in that direction?

There's an entire park filled with cherry blossoms and a waterfall

that almost nobody knows about or goes to.

Just around the corner, basically

all you've got to do is

Cross the road and you'll find yourself here at the entrance to ohyogawa-shinsui park.

It's a really long name which is why I wrote it on the screen, but let's go this way

And you'll notice that other than these kind gentlemen fishing quietly beside me there's not really that many people in the park

What's more is above me are all cherry blossom trees and the sky tree is right over there

Now this park is gonna give you a lot more than just cherry blossoms

so I've done an entire video on it that I'll link right here.

There's a lot going on in this park. In fact, this Park is several kilometers long

I think it was like two point three

Kilometers or something like that and to get from the crowded area of the Sky Tree to here

Took me probably less than three minutes. It's literally

Right around the corner and there's no people

Now most of the trees above and around me right now are actually cherry blossom trees and

This park hasn't opened up yet. So I can't show you just exactly how beautiful it is

But in some ways that might even be good news for those of you who are coming soon and aren't quite here yet

There are certain Sakura spots around Tokyo that do open a little earlier than others

Like that spot right by the sky tree or at the entrance of Ueno park where there's two trees that open

Famously early, you know what? Let's teleport there for a second

Right in the entrance of the park here. There are two trees that open up early.

That cat was probably my favorite part of this whole video so far and it's getting really warm like this jacket was very much

unnecessary

There we go and ducks

Right there is still a lot more to show

So let's get out of this park and head to the other side on Asakusa

Once you've found the sports center the park is just on the other side of those buses

so this park here will be really well known to regular viewers and to

viewers of my other channel shamisen in Tokyo because I've been coming out to this park for

Years to make music videos with two Japanese shamisen players called Kiki

We chose this spot

Specifically because this is pretty much always what it looks like even when it's in full bloom

There aren't that many people it is a quiet hidden little spot and it's super easy access because it's right behind Asakusa

in fact, this whole area has hidden little spots like this

(Japanese)

She stopped to ask me if she can walk through because she didn't want to ruin my shot

And between the nice people all the hidden spots the Sky Tree in the background and everything

This is a really good area just to explore with or without the cherry blossoms

So I'm gonna link a video here that I did about the area

From last year but to give you guys a feel for what the area is like when it's in full bloom

Let me show you a few clips from last year

And again

Not that many people and every now and then rain hits and you're able to get a really cool

picture like this one

if if only the cherry blossoms are in full bloom at that point, but

Speaking of night before I lose all my light. We should probably head to the next location, which is just down the river this way

The park we just came from is there the park that we started with is beside the sky tree over here

And our next park is gonna be down and around the bend of the river maybe about ten minutes by bicycle

Also with the cool air coming off the water feels like the jacket isn't the worst idea. All right, let's get going

And finally

I wanted to show you guys probably my favorite park out of all the parks is by far the furthest of all of them

But it also gives you..there's about a billion reasons to love this place. I mean

Now admittedly this park does take the most effort to get to you can rent a bicycle or you can walk along the river

It'd probably be about an hour's walk, but it's definitely worth it once you get here

I could honestly go on and on and on about why this is my favorite park

but I think the largest benefit that I could possibly share with you is

That it's so quiet

Even the people who do gather here and sit to enjoy hanami aren't loud and rambunctious

And crazy like you might find somewhere like, Ueno Park

It's just nice people peacefully enjoying the cherry blossoms

And is there any better reason to come to a place like this?

ohh, I'd be lying If I said I wasn't hot. Spring is definitely here

now one of my goals for today with this video is I wanted to give you guys a

Couple quiet or peaceful places to enjoy the cherry blossoms or sakura in the way that we always imagined them to be

But I also know that not everybody can come out for the cherry blossoms

Which is one of the reasons why that print that I showed you guys at the very beginning

I'm giving that away to one of you that is provided you're interested in having it and all you've got to do is

like this video

Share this video somewhere and comment down below with where you share the video

I will be selecting one winner for the print at the beginning of April and

I may even select the second or third winner for like a little mini secondary prize

At least let me know in the comments which one of these locations was your personal favorite

I think we all get it by now that this was mine

Additionally one last thing guys for those of you who have watched up to this far in the video

All the links for these locations instead of putting them in the description box

I put them in the comment that I pinned at the very top

So if you hit expand you'll be able to click on links to the Google Maps location as well as all of the corresponding

Videos for each one of these spots. Guys Thank you so much for joining this video

I had a lot of fun making this one. I hope that you enjoyed it as well

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