Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden
- LuNa
- 19 дек. 2018 г.
- 3 мин. чтения
Обновлено: 31 мар. 2020 г.
Hey there!
First thanks that you are here, reading! Today I will tell about Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden and Japanese traditional noodles – soba. If you want to see me and my friends walking the garden and eating soba link to the YouTube video is below ⇣😉
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden is an imperial garden for cherry blossom viewing. The entry fee is around $1.5 – $3. The garden consists of 150 areas. Here you will find Japanese traditional style garden, French style, English style garden and tropical greenhouse. There are many paths, artificial hills, islands in ponds, small bridges, and stone lanterns. However, of course the main reason visiting Gyoen Garden is to see the bloom Sakura! What is Sakura? ♡ Basically it's a cherry blossom - flowers which several trees of Prunus have. So yes, there are different kinds of sakura/cherry blossom. We call it sakura because it's actually how the word "cherry blossom" is pronounced in Japanese [さくら]. Furthermore, this little soft cushiony flower is a national flower in Japan. Therefore, every year during the cherry blossom season Japanese people have a period of "hanami" - having picnics under blooming trees and enjoying the beauty of sakura. As I mentioned above there are many kinds of sakura and those who pay a lot of attention to that can even buy special guides about those types and their blooming period (when I visited Gyoen garden I saw one woman, who was walking from tree to tree making polaroids and putting them into the album naming each of the type). In general, the blooming period starts in Okinawa (in January) and ends in Kyoto, Tokyo & Hokkaido (in March - April). This year the blooming period started earlier so it was hard to find an original Sakura tree, thought I came to Tokyo on 2nd of April.What should you know about Sakura: ♡there are different kinds of trees. ♡the blooming season in Tokyo is March. ♡there are plenty of parks & gardens with numerous sakura trees. ♡you can find sakura almost everywhere in Tokyo. ♡almost every school & university has sakura because it's a symbol of new beginning (school year in Japan begins in April not in September). ♡you can see blooming sakura on 100 yen
💚Soba💚 Japanese food is AMAZING! No, for real, the food here is another level thing. Maybe because of the attention that is paid to how you cook and serve dishes, but even street food looks and tastes amazing. Soba is one of the most traditional dishes in Japan like for example, sushi and tempura. Soba – thin noodles made of buckwheat flour. This dish originated back in Edo period (1603 – 1868). It became very popular and beloved and therefore people started to serve it to mark special events. For example, even today people still eat toshikoshi-soba on the last day of the year. 💚 There are 2 ways of serving soba: 1) cold with dipping sauce or 2) warm with noodle soup. I tried both and personally prefer the cold version. On the photo, you can see cold soba made of buckwheat flour mixed with spinach. In some places (in the one we visited they had it), after you finish eating cold soba, you get a pot of sobayu (cooking water from boiling noodles). You need to pure it into the special cup where you have leftovers of the dipping sauce and drink it.
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