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The Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, [1] at Shofuso Japanese House and Garden, is an annual spring celebration based on the Japanese custom of Hanami (cherry blossom viewing). The festival, which is presented by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, commemorates a 1926 gift of 1,600 cherry blossom trees from ...
The Jefferson Memorial visible through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also ...
The annual Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival was established in 1976 following the gift of 1,000 cherry trees to Seattle on behalf of Japan by then prime minister Takeo Miki. [8] [9] The festival was originally held at the park before moving to Seattle Center. [10] [11] Eleven new cherry trees were planted at Seattle Center in ...
There's no need to travel to Japan, or Washington, D.C., this spring to see cherry blossoms in all their petal pinkness. Philadelphia is again hosting the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival at the ...
Sakura Square. Coordinates: 39.7519°N 104.9934°W. Sakura Square, Denver, Colorado. Sakura Square ( Japanese: サクラ・スクエア, Sakura Sukuea) is a small plaza located on the north/east side of the intersection of 19th Street and Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado. The square contains busts of Ralph L. Carr, Governor of Colorado from ...
St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis's best blossom views can be found at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The garden is home to 100 cherry trees of several varieties, all of which bloom at different ...
Cherry tree in bloom in Yachounomori Garden, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan, April 2009 The cherry blossom, or sakura, is the flower of trees in Prunus subgenus Cerasus. Sakura usually refers to flowers of ornamental cherry trees, such as cultivars of Prunus serrulata, not trees grown for their fruit [1]: 14–18 [2] (although these also have blossoms).
The International Cherry Blossom Festival is held in Macon, Georgia every spring. Macon, known as the "Cherry Blossom Capital of the World," [1] has around 300,000–350,000 Yoshino Cherry Trees that bloom around the city in late March every year. [2][3] The festival, held to coincide with the typical blooming period, lasts for ten days and ...