Kudanshita Sakura
One of my favourite places to go to see the cherry blossoms in Tokyo is Kudanshita. The station is always packed and it takes an age to get up the stairs, but once you emerge it’s full on sakura. There’s a beautiful moat around what was once part of the Emperors palace, and a grassy hill with loads of cherry trees. The view of the Showakan makes it perfect, it feels like you’ve been transported back to the Seventies
You can cross the bridge and go under a tunnel of sakura to the Budokan, then continue through the park. Or you can cross the road and go to Yasukuni Jinja, where they always have food stalls set up. If you continue walking up Yasukuni-dori (the big road) you eventually get to Ichigaya, from where you can double back along the river and walk all the way to Ochanomizu station.
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