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In Part 1, I took you for a brief tour around our residential area, focussed on the currently blooming cherry blossoms.

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In this piece, I’ll take you a little further (i.e. I visited different shops), towards the neighbouring neighbourhood of Kamikitazawa.

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It's not just the cherry blossoms - all of the trees are joining the party

I bumped into a fellow Sony camera user, with his A7R and a hard carry case containing around 10 lenses. He was in the process of changing to what I believed to be the C/Y mount 50/1.4, when he flashed me a smile and said “have a good one!”

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Kamikitazawa is a stone’s throw from our apartment, and its famous for the sakura-lined streets at this time of year.

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Even the local bakery closed shop for a few minutes to take a photo with some loyal customers.

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More rain is forecast for tomorrow, but we’re hoping that most of the sakura can stick around until at least Saturday. If they do, it’ll be one busy day…

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All of today’s shots were taken with the A7R & Zeiss 55/1,8 Sonnar