As previously mentioned, I found a little coffee shop near the apartment in Kyoto called Story Coffee and Espresso.
I'd take a 5 minute walk there most mornings before work to grab a coffee and chat to the owner before starting my work day, and part of the walk was down by a little canal with some cherry blossoms along the edges. I started taking photos every few days to document the progress of the Sakura over time.
A bridge over the canal
The path the canal takes is a bit scattered
This little island allows you to walk under the bridge
Story coffee and espresso is the one with the cedar/cherry colored doors.
It's closed on Thursdays.
It's closed on Thursdays.
There are some little back streets between the canal and the shop
It's open today
A courier with a bicycle delivers coffee beans
A bridge at the Story end of the canal
The view in the direction back towards the apartment
Thank you for shoes flowers
A cappuccino with a wholemeal scone
The first sakura tree to flower, surrounded by people taking photos
Further up the canal away from Story at the apartment end
The walk I took was along 3 blocks worth of the canal, which were roughly in the middle
The wholemeal scone was my favourite snack of the available options
The rest of the trees start to flower
Rich cheese toast (tasty cheese and kewpie mayo)
The petals start to fall
The pigeons occasionally eat the petals. I'm not sure if they derive some nutrition from them, or they're just stupid.
They're not particularly scared of people either.
The apartment
Sakura Basque Cheesecake, the pink guff sprinkled on it was salty which was unexpected but it was good.
One morning a parade went past the shop, which was odd as it is in a small side street
The little cardboard books are a 3 pack of drip coffees.
As Story is roughly 3 blocks south and 3 blocks east of the apartment, if you don't walk all the way own the canal there are a few other ways you can get there.
One of the streets passes a local depot for the Yamato courier company.
Their logo is a yellow oval with a black cat carrying its kitten within.
They do a lot of delivering via bicycle
Mesh for rubbish collection day
Matcha terrine
Rubbish in Japan is sorted into combustible and non combustible.
One is put out in white bags, and the other in yellow bags.
The wind seems to blow the petals where they gather against walls
and in the corners of stairs
Some people protect their trash bags from roving bands of raccoons with blue mesh (weighed down with water bottles)
On my last day in Kyoto, the owner of the coffee shop pretended not to have made wholemeal scones, so she could give me one as a gift as I left.
The petals were really starting to drop
I walked further up the canal than needed just to check out what was there
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