My first stop was at Rikugien, one of the most beautiful landscape gardens in Tokyo. While most of the trees were at their peak here when Scott visited last week, today I found that many trees close to the pond and around Fujishirotoge Hill to have dried up leaves waiting to fall soon. The situation was better at the Maple Tree Canal close to Tsutsuji Chaya, where there were still many maple trees with saturated warm colors, although past their absolute best. I am afraid good autumn views here may not last into the weekend.