I have never seen such hanami bentos before. Nobody told me they have such things when I was in Japan. Where can you get these and how much are they?
I suppose they are 期間限定、aren’t they?

There is no hanami bento genre per se. It was just marketed as such during the hanami season. This was cost 1800 yen and was ordered from a nearby hotel.

Bento’s are best to eat sitting at a Shinkansen window seat watching the landscape whiz by.

Cherry blossom petals falling on your food is just annoying.

Mike, you sound like you have had petals land on your food before.
There was once when I went out in the neighbourhood to lunch by myself. After lunch, I passed by this school field lined with sakura trees. A gust of wind created falling petals which was just magical. The street was silent except for the wind and there was no one else to savour the experience but me alone.
I didn’t do the conventional Japanese hanami but that shower of petal was the BEST memory I had of Japan.

Luck-y U, Roy .
we don’t have the likes of those bentos
although Cherry-Blossom is on full-swing here too
across the sea in Korea “V”

Hey MichaeL, got your blog up yet?

Roy,
believe-me : I’ve pondered thru template layouts
on most o’the online blogs AND software
but to no avail. Couldn’t find one like yours -_-

and am currently thinking of going with MSN Spaces
since it provides the kind’o'Global-member-linking I desire .