春天赏樱花是来日本旅居必须要打卡的一项活动。其实不一定非要去公园，一到三月底樱花已经开得遍地都是了，下面四张是离家不远的小学附近的樱花树。想想要是我曾经就读的小学也有这么多花树，可能会比现在更早患上花粉过敏性鼻炎。  

Enjoying cherry (also known as sakura) blossoms in spring is one of must-to-do activities in Japan. In fact, you don't have to go to parks to watch the flowers. From the end of March, cherry blossoms can be seen almost everywhere. The following four pictures are the cherry trees near a primary school in our neibhorhood. In my childhood, there were almost none flowers in the primary school. Actually I do not feel bad for that, because I may have suffered from pollen allergic rhinitis earlier if so.

不过为了增加一些仪式感，我们在3月27日还是去了东京赏花胜地之一：上野公园。有些可惜的是天气不好，阴天多云让樱花大为失色。不过即便如此，游人仍旧很多。   

To increase the sense of ceremony, we went to Ueno Park, one of the flower attractions in Tokyo on March 27. It's a pity that the weather was cloudy, which greatly reduced the beauty of cherry blossoms. But even so, there were still many tourists. 

我们也租了船，最原始手划的那种。发现当了家用摄像师的一个好处就是划船的工作都让老婆包了，为了摆姿势这点小辛苦已经算不上什么了。湖面上游船很多，所以我们也同时体会了一下碰碰船的快乐。

We also rented a boat, the most basic one. One of the advantages of being a cameraman in my family is that my wife took care of all the boating work. This manual labor was nothing for her in order to take poses on the water. There were many boats on the lake. We also enjoyed playing bumper boats.  

从湖中与岸上的行人对望，大家都在彼此认为的画中游玩。   

Looking at the tourists walking on the shore from the boat, we seem all playing in the paintings shown in front of each others' eyes.