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Hanami picnics in front of Himeji Castle, 2005 Osaka Castle. Hanami (花見, "flower viewing") is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the transient beauty of flowers; flowers (花, hana) in this case almost always refer to those of the cherry (桜, sakura) or, less frequently, plum (梅, ume) trees. [1]
The cherry blossom front between Kyushu and Kanto, 2007. The cherry blossom front (桜前線, sakura zensen) is the advance of the cherry blossoms across Japan.The Japan Meteorological Agency records the opening and full bloom of the blossoms from Kyūshū in late March to Hokkaidō in the middle of May.
Expo 2025 (2025年日本国際博覧会, Nisennijūgo-nen Nippon Kokusai Hakurankai, and officially 大阪・関西万博 Ōsaka–Kansai Banpaku for short) is an upcoming World Expo organised and sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which will be held in Osaka, Japan.
Yumeshima (夢洲) is an artificial island in Osaka Bay. It is part of Konohana-ku (此花区), one of the 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is near the mouth of the Yodo River. When all the landfill is completed the total area will be 390 hectares (960 acres). It is the site of Expo 2025, a World's Fair to be held in 2025. [1]
September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships will be held in Tokyo.; April 6 – 2025 Formula One World Championship is held at 2025 Japanese Grand Prix May 17–18 – 2024–25 Formula E World Championship is held at 2025 Tokyo ePrix
Yumeshima Station (夢洲駅, Yumeshima-eki) is a metro station on the Osaka Metro Chūō Line in Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the westernmost station of the Osaka Metro system. [ 1 ] As of September 2024, [update] Osaka Metro projects that the station will be used by a maximum of 130,000 people daily during the Expo 2025 .
Myaku-Myaku appearing at an event in Nagoya in September 2024. Myaku-Myaku (ミャクミャク, Myakumyaku), officially stylized in all caps as MYAKU-MYAKU, is the mascot and yuru-chara representing Expo 2025, an upcoming world's fair scheduled to be held between April 13 and October 13, 2025, in Osaka, Japan.
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 ...