cherry blossom partiers

This definitely lets you know you're in "Ame-mura" or "Amerika-mura", "America Town", downtown Osaka near Shinsaibashi.

at the Open-air museum of old farmhouses in Osaka

small shrine/altar in a cave near Nanzen-ji, Kyoto

near Nanzen-ji

one of the gardens at the main hall at Nanzen-ji

Nanzen-ji, Kyoto

one of the Shinto shrines at the Imamiya complex, Kyoto