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cherry blossom occurrence in Japan this year. Based upon the first hand informationfrom this Tokyo dweller’s colleague of mine, then we decided to travel at the beginning of March, despite the warning from some of my relatives who stay in Japan that there is a possibility of having an unusual climate this year due to the impact of climate change or perhaps other causes, among others they stated the evidence of unusual snow fall in Tokyo,and the one digit temperature at the end of February. Although we have the last minuteinformation from our son that the snow was still fallen a couple of days before our departure, then we can hardly rectify our schedule, since our flight had already confirmed amonth earlier.Prior to the touch down, of our aircraft at Narita International Airport of Tokyo, mywife and I was a bit released to hear the pilot announcement that the temperature outsidethe aircraft had come up to 15 degrees Centigrade. Given that information, my wife wasseemingly quite confidence to step down from the escalator, having our experience of twodigits sub zero decrees temperature in Winnipeg during our five years stay in this notorious North American climate. It became a little bit of problem, having the fact that our flightarrival was several minutes late, then we have to catch up the next hour scheduledlimousine to the city terminal, waiting at the platform. During an hour waiting, we becameslightly discouraged again because we noticed that the temperature was quickly descendedto one digit again, followed by the approaching spots of rainfall. Under such unfriendlyweather condition, we were almost felt a sleep at the convenient limousine bus and onlynoticed our arrival to the city terminal about an hour later after the automatic machineannounced our final destination. We were then leaved the bus to catch a taxi to our son’sapartment with the feeling of exhausted after more than ten hours traveling from Jakarta.We arrived at our son’s apartment in Meguro District of Tokyo almost noon, wherewe found that our daughter in law had already prepared a set of Japanese cuisine for lunch,which we immediately enjoyed very much under the chilly temperature of the Japanesestile apartment. I only aware after waking up later at 6 pm that I had been overslept myself at the
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Japanese plaited mat at the guest room, immediately after having a heavyJapanese cuisine lunch. Similar situation experienced by my wife, while my son and mydaughter in law were respectfully reluctant to wake me up but give us pillow and blanket asthey saw our exhausting but relaxing condition to enjoy exceptionally sound sleep whilelying at the Japanese mat of the guest room, without even changing our dress.
Blessing in Disguise while Waiting for
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Cherry Blossom:
As the time passed by,we do nor aware that we have already stayed in Tokyo for almost half a month when thisarticle was written, however our initial itinerary had not come to the
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cherry blossom’s
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matter, as we fully understood, based upon information we obtained previously, that the mass cherry blossom would normally come into being at the third week of March, despite that some of the cherry types have already bloomed unusually earlier.Some trees have yet bloomed but the flowers have been sprouting. Others have already blooming at the initial stage, as we saw at the neighbors’ house yard on our ways to themosque for Friday prayer.However, the fact that during the days since our arrival have been so unfriendly,that we could only went out for sight seeing and shopping for two lovely days and twoFriday’s sunny days, which we felt like the most heart felt annoyance. This was consideredso inconvenience as our planned itinerary for the first and the second week stay in Tokyo
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