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Cherry tree forest near the Nishi-guchi (west) gate.

The outdoor architectural museum is within Koganei Park in Koganei, Tokyo. This is the Visitors Center.

Koganei Park sakura

Going to visitors center

Huge trees shower you with cherry blossoms.

Visitors Center entrance courtyard

Low branches are common

Jisho-in Mausoleum

Mansion of Mitsui Hachiroemon, one of the museum's must-see buildingsFounder of the Mitsui zaibatsu.

Inside Mitsui Hachiroemon mansion

Tokiwadai Photo Studio, 1937Unfortunately, it was closed for renovations. It has a large frosted glass which brought in daylight for studio lighting.

Farmer's house

Inside farmer's house

Another farmer's house

Inside another farmer's house

Path to other areas of the huge park.

Yamanote-dori Road

Tall one

Takahashi Korekiyo mansion

Another cherry tree forest near the center of the park.

Orge's shack

Reaching low

Shitamachi main street

Visitor's center entrance to the outdoor architectural museum.

Takei Sanshodo stationary shop

Cherry blossom promenade

Takei Sanshodo stationary shop

On the left is a soy sauce and miso shop. On the right is a public bath.

Soy sauce shop

Low-rider cherries

Soy sauce shop

Typical Somei-Yoshino cluster of cherry blossoms

Tavern

Cherry blossom curtain

Sento public bath with a temple architectureNamed Kodara-yu.

This was a weekday.

Entrance to sento public bath. Men on left and women on right.

Beautiful day

Fee collector booth at entrance.

Changing room

Tree branches sprawled all over the blue sky.

Bath entrance

Cherry blossom veil

Bathing area

It says, "Don't open the faucet. Water might flow."

Bath tub

Cherry blossom ceiling

Men's bath

Cherry blossom roof

Buckets

Cherry blossom tent

Kami-shibai (Storytelling with large paper cards)Popular before the days of television.

Kami-shibaiSlot to change the story cards.

Bicycles and cherries

Old streetcar

In front of entrance to visitors center

Inside streetcar

Old bus

Fireman's watch tower

Police box at Manseibashi in Tokyo

Cherry blossom shade

Plum blossom trees (withered)

Nishikawa Villa

The Three Treasures (in the 1960s): 1. Washing machine with manual wringer

Red cherries called kanhi-zakura カンヒザクラ

2. Refrigerator

Red drooping cherries called kanhi-zakura カンヒザクラSimilar to a rose.

3. TV set

Red drooping cherries called kanhi-zakura カンヒザクラSimilar to a rose.

Kōgan-ji Temple (高岩寺)

Gate to Koganji temple, a famous spot along the shopping street.

Koganji temple. The temple's popular name is "Togenuki Jizo-son." It sells magic paper called osugata which supposed to remove a thorn or splinter from your skin. Affix it to the thorn and it will be extracted. とげぬき地蔵尊

Togenuki means thorn-extracting. Koganji temple incense burner

Koganji temple Hondo hall. This is a Zen temple belonging to the Soto-shu school. The temple was founded in 1596 and moved to Sugamo in 1891.

Inside Koganji temple Hondo. The temple houses the Togenuki Jizo statue which is not visible to the public.

Grounds of Koganji temple as seen from the Hondo hall.

People line up to wash the famous Kannon statue. The line gets longer on weekends.

People in line for the Arai (Washable) Kannon statue. Anybody can line up and scrub the statue. No charge.

Arai Kannon statue. Wash the part of the body to cure the corresponding part of your own body. 洗い観音

They used to have a tawashi brush to wash the statue, but that wore out the statue. So the replacement statue is now washed/rubbed with a towel instead.

Jizo statue

People relax in front of the temple.

The "Balloon Glow" event at Koga Kubo Park in Jan. 2023 was colorful and impressive even when the balloons did not fly. Free event, mainly local crowds.This was actually a 2022 Christmas Eve event, but it was postponed twice due to bad weather or strong winds. Finally held on Jan. 22, 2023.

Map of Koga Kubo Park. Large park noted for peach blossoms from late March to early April. Also has irises and lotus in summer. 古河公方公園

Koga Kubo Park has Gosho-numa Pond.

Koga Kubo Park opened on March 24, 1975. It's quite a large park.

Fujimi-zuka Hill 富士見塚

Pheasant bird cage.　鳥小屋

Food trucks for the balloon glow event.

Kubo Park's grassy lawn where four hot-air balloons were placed, rolled out flat on a blue tarp over the grass.　芝生広場

Inflating the balloon.

The balloons inflated quite quickly.

Inflating the hot-air balloon.

Hot-air balloons are vulnerable to strong winds. See how the balloon can sway in strong winds.

Burner is lit every so often to maintain the hot air.

They started blowing flames into the balloon.

The MC came up to the crowd and asked people to give the word to light up the balloons.

Standing by for sunset.

When it got dark enough, all four balloons lit up their balloons simultaneously numerous times during the one-hour event.

The balloon lights up only when the burner is shooting a flame under it. The flame illuminates the entire balloon.

This photo was taken during the several seconds when the burners of all four balloons were flaming into the balloons at the same time.

All four balloons lit up at the same time many times during the one-hour balloon glow event. They played J-pop music in the background.

This is how it looks when they are dark.

Crowd-pleasing event.

The 37th Koganei Awa Odori dance festival was held on July 25-26, 2015 from 6 pm to 9 pm in Koganei, Tokyo. A total of 43 dance troupes (2,800 performers) appeared during the two-day festival. Many are based in Koganei.