Nakameguro riverside dining

What the guides say about Nakameguro riverside dining

The Meguro River runs through Nakameguro in a concrete channel lined with cherry trees, and the strip on either side is where the cafes, wine bars and riverside restaurants cluster. The Nakameguro guide covers the walk. Rentals directly on the canal are rare and command a premium during blossom week. Most are in the residential grid behind it, five minutes' walk from the water and noticeably calmer at night.

Nakameguro. The canal, the riverside dining, the canal bars and cherry blossoms at night in early April. The index found only 92 hotel listings here in the latest sample. It's on the Tokyu Toyoko Line from Shibuya, or an easy walk down from the crossing through Daikanyama. The Nakameguro guide has everything else.

The famous three, with the crowds to match. Ueno Park lines its main avenue with hundreds of trees and is the busiest hanami ground in the city. It's magic at 8am and a queue by early afternoon. Chidorigafuchi turns the palace moat into a tunnel of branches over rowing boats, and on a sunny weekend the boat queue runs to hours. The Meguro River in Nakameguro becomes one of the most photographed canals in Japan, lanterns and blossoms reflected in the water after dark. The canal-side bars and riverside restaurants are why you'd stay past sunset, and why the towpath is shoulder to shoulder.