Sakura (Cherry blossoms)

Close to Nikko is Lake Chuzenji, which is where we went this morning to wander along the lakeside and have coffee and ice cream before getting the bus back to Nikko to look round the famous shrines there. Being rather to late for the main cherry blossom season, this was the only bit that I saw - it's quite high in the mountains at Lake Chuzenji (an interesting bus trip up a windy road with 40 or so hairpin bends to get there) so I guess that's why this one was still in flower.