the number of trees being about 1,500. The flowering 
season is about the middle of April. As the locality 
commands facilities for railway connection, motor-cars, 
buses, etc. there is a large influx of visitors during 
the season. 
Koganei is within about 2/3 of a mile from 
Musashi-Sakai station on the Chuo Line of the Govern- 
ment Railways, on which run electric trains at regular 
intervals. The distance between Musashi-Sakai station 
and the cherry avenue can be covered in about 5 minutes 
by motor-car. 
A stroll beneath the long avenue of blooming 
cherries which skirts the straggling rivulet, while 
leisurely viewing the cloud-like clusters of beautiful 
flowers heavily hanging on the overladen branches of 
the trees overhead, can never fail to give one great 
pleasure—a pleasure that can hardly be sought any- 
where else. Proceeding westward along the embank- 
ment, that is to say, towards the head of the stream, 
one is confronted with a fascinating panorama of the 
blooming cherries to the front, one glorious mass of 
lovely flowers of flushed white, which reflect the mild 
rays of the morning sun shining in the azure sky, 
spreads before one’s eyes a vast screen of rich tapestry 
interwoven with crimson-coloured or pale green young 
foliage, a perfect brocade woven by nature’s hand. 
Here and there along the stream there are several 
bridges, so that.visitors are advised to change occasion- 
ally the course of their itinerary by crossing from one 
side of the stream to the other. 
Close to Seki-no-bashi, one of those small bridges 
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