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photo by masato mukoyama | Keage Incline (Lake Biwa Canal) at night

This year’s cherry blossom season – thanks to some heavy rains over the weekend – is just about wrapping up in Japan. 2014 was made all the more poetic as “5% parties” bid farewell to the old tax rate and welcomed in the new 8% rate under short-lived, fleeting cherry blossoms.

For one reason or another, this time of year is particularly difficult for me to travel to Japan and, once again, I am here in NY watching Instagram photos appear in my feed and then quickly disappear; transient as the cherry blossoms themselves. Here is a small selection of some of my favorites that I’ve come across recently. And you can see more over on visual aggregation site Bored Panda.

Last year was also special when a seasonally-rare snow made for some pretty amazing pictures too.

photo by danny dungo | the drainage system of the meguro river never looked so good

photo by yuga kurita |Mt. Fuji and cherry blossoms

photo by akio iwanaga

photo by ryosuke yagi |cherry blossoms in Aoyama, Tokyo

photo by ta3mam | Tokyo

photo by torne | a 200m-long slide at Nishihira-hatake park in Kanagawa

photo by 紅襪熊 | along the meguro river

photo by noisy paradise | along the meguro river

[Update] one late bloomer, added to the collection:

cherry blossom petals along a river in Hirosaki Park, Aomori | photo by @WizardsTools

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