Photographed on April 15, 25.
It is the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
The cherry blossoms had fallen and turned into leaf cherry blossoms. The petals of the cherry blossoms floated on the surface of the water and were very beautiful.

【🌸 Gokase Flower Viewing 2025 — Featured Submissions, Part 12 — 🌸】

The submission period finally ends today, Sunday, May 11. We’re showcasing entries to “#Gokase Flower Viewing 2025,” currently running on the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account.💪❤️‍🔥

@hanpenpen2022
@goto0619
(in no particular order)

This time’s photos show the Akebono azaleas on Mt. Futagami and the white flowers in Kuraoka…what kind of flowers are those, I wonder?🤔 Everyone clearly knows well when and where different flowers bloom, and many have personal memories and attachments to these blooms. Those feelings seem to shine through in the photos — they’re truly lovely.✨

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“#Gokase Flower Viewing 2025” also ends today, Sunday, May 11!👏 If you meant to enter but haven’t yet, don’t miss the chance — submit before you forget!💡❗

≪#How to Enter #Gokase Flower Viewing 2025≫
Follow the Gokase Tourism Association Instagram account, then post a photo of flowers taken within Gokasecho on Instagram with the two hashtags #Gokase Flower Viewing 2025 and #date of photography (example: #March 20).🤳❤️‍🔥

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【Period】From Thursday, March 20, 2025 to Sunday, May 11, 2025

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I didn't expect the way home after drinking to be so bright.

This is the scenery of Kumamoto, where my grandmother's house is located.
I took this photo when I visited in the summer, and I felt that the scenery has remained unchanged since I was a child.
I love the contrast between the continuous road and the lush greenery.

This is a night view of Rainbow Yellowtail taken from Toyosu Gururi Park.
I took a picture with the image of the lights of the bridge reflecting beautifully on the sea

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the Bonshō bell and cherry blossoms of Lotus Temple.

This photo was taken 📸 about a month ago when I went to Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
While the cherry blossoms and plum blossoms are in full bloom, I saw one bird standing on a branch, and I had to take a picture of this! !! This is the 🕊️ one I took thinking (��.*
I was able to take a very adorable picture, so please take a look and be healed (*ฅ́ ̆ฅ̀*)

It is more like a snapshot than a landscape photo, but it is a piece that expresses the atmosphere of downtown Akabane as close to the appearance as possible. If you like Sake, I hope you will want to go out for a drink by looking at the photos.

This is a sunset view of Rainbow Yellowtail taken from the end of Shibaura South Pier. The moment when the sky turned a faint dark blue after the sun went down was taken with a wide-angle 14mm. The buildings in the back were distorted, but it can't be helped because it's a wide angle. I tried correcting it with development software, but it didn't change much.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the cherry blossom of Lotus Temple.
The cherry blossoms are also wonderful.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
The cherry blossoms were beginning to fall, and a flower raft was being formed.

Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine My favorite place
The Great Ginkgo Tree has fallen, but it is still alive　
What strength, what vitality
Ginkgo has seen a lot of history　
I really like it, I'm sure I've lived there before.

How many years have passed since then?
It's going to be bigger　
I want to see it with my own eyes

That's right, let's go
Let's go to Kamakura

A quiet corner of the clear Garden that will make you forget the hustle and bustle of the Central Tokyo. In the midst of the bustle of the daytime, the appearance of the kakei and the kick that suddenly caught my eye made me feel as if time had stopped and. In contrast to the surrounding hustle and bustle, only the sound of water stream quietly fills the space.
The greenery of the trees reflected in the polished stone water bowl, the texture of the mossy cane. It was a simple and tranquil beauty lurking behind the glamour, a world of wabi-sabi. I was deeply impressed by the fact that this ancient beauty has not changed in the midst of many people coming and going. We hope that you will feel that the aesthetic sense of Japan is condensed in a moment of tranquility.

Cool Carp streamers

My first Children's Day. Carp streamers for the first time.
Carp streamers swimming comfortably in the blue sky and smiling 😊
Carp streamers are becoming less and less common, but the large school of about 200 carp streamers was dynamic and impressive 🎏
I felt once again that it is a wonderful tradition that should be passed on in the future.
Wishing my daughter a healthy growth.
Sukuku Grow Bigger 🌱

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
A flower raft was made.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
In the raft, the boatman was practicing.

I went to Kyoto for the first time! It's been a dream of mine for a long time to go to the Yasaka Tower in Kyoto, and I'm glad that my dream has finally come true. I was surprised to see it in the real world, which was bigger than I expected!

At Cape Collar
Spring and a landscape trying hard to live facing the sun
I'm sure I've been living with my pulse for a long time.

"Falling Yang ~Shadow Engraving Sansama~"
Dusk during Golden Week. A breakwater at a fishing port along the Sea of Japan in Tottori Prefecture, not far from sightseeing spots. Under the setting sunset as usual, each time was streaming slowly.
Even though we were in the same air, I felt that the silence of the three of us was engraved on it, and I involuntarily clicked the shutter.

The sunset seen from the car was so beautiful that I took a picture of it and it was fantastic! !!
Take a look if you like it ( ˊᴗˋ*)

　It was taken at the Fujiwara Festival in Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture. About 900 years ago, at the end of the Heian period, when Minamoto Yoshitsune, who was chased by his brother Minamoto no Yoritomo, relied on Fujiwara no Hidehiro of Hiraizumi and went down to the east.
This is the 62nd Festival that Reproduction the Scene. Dressed in costumes Reproduction Heian picture scrolls, a line of horses and cattle Car procession from Moetsu Temple to Chūson Temple.
　The photo was taken Temple a brave warrior who departed from the main gate of Mao Yue.

This is one of the photos when I went to Koshio Kuroyama Mitaki in Saitama Prefecture in February of this year. On the day of the event, it was raining steadily and it was very cold, but I remember seeing the beautiful waterfall and forgetting the cold.
It's a small waterfall, but this waterfall is not three waterfalls, but it seems to be called Welcome Falls.
It was the first waterfall at the entrance in front of the three waterfalls.

It is a Carp streamer on the Onga River riverbed in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture!
The season is over, but since it was the day before Children's Day, many families came! I felt once again that my father's back on his Vacation Day was great.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
In front of the Hikawa Kaikan, a flower raft was made.

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
A flower raft was made.

It is a historical landscape of Local Kure City

Photographed on April 9, 25.
It is the honorary cherry blossom of the Shingashi River behind the Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine.
A flower raft was made.

A few years ago, at university, I became a licensed nurse and midwife. After graduating from university, I got a job in my Local Niigata. Due to the declining birthrate and aging population, the number of babies born is small, and the recruitment of midwives is low, so I decided to build a career as a nurse instead of a midwife. The profession of a nurse not only supports the daily lives of people facing illness, but also heals people's hearts at times, and at other times, it is wonderful to be involved in people's lives themselves. As a nurse, I also had a very fully equipped life. However, my longing for the profession of "midwife," which I had studied hard for and obtained a qualification for, did not disappear, and somewhere in my heart, my desire to take on the challenge became stronger. Just as I was thinking about changing jobs to a midwife, I found a very beautiful row of cherry blossom trees in my Local Nagaoka area. In the sunset, the cherry blossoms that were just beginning to bloom caught my eye. It was warm and dignified, like a baby born into this world. At that time, I felt encouraged by the cherry blossoms and decided to take on the challenge of becoming a midwife. This photo is of the cherry blossoms that gave me the final push after my struggle. You only live once, and I want to do what I like and want to do to the fullest, and enjoy my seemingly long and short life to the fullest.