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2. Shimizu Park - Wikipedia

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   This park is renowned for its cherry blossoms, boasting over two thousand cherry blossoms in fifty varieties. Many of those bloom in late March or April when an annual Cherry Blossom Festival is held. In 1990 Shimizu Park was selected by the Japan Sakura Association as one of Japan's Top 100 Cherry Blossom Spots. [1]

3. Maruyama Park - Wikipedia

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   Maruyama Park (円山公園, Maruyama kōen) is a park in Kyoto, Japan. It is noted as the main center for cherry blossom viewing in Kyoto, and can get extremely crowded at that time of year (April). The park's star attraction is a weeping cherry tree (shidarezakura) which becomes lit up at night. It also becomes busy in the New Year's Eve ...

4. Cherry blossom - Wikipedia

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   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).

5. Mount Yoshino - Wikipedia

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   The 12th century CE Japanese Buddhist poet Saigyō writes of Mount Yoshino's cherry blossoms. During this period, the extent of the cherry forests was much greater, and large portions have been replaced by more economically valuable Hinoki cypress or Cryptomeria forests before and during World War II. In the 21st century, efforts have been made ...

6. Hanami - Wikipedia

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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]

7. Tokyo on two wheels: Why you should experience Japan’s ...

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   Even after 20 years in Japan and guiding countless bike tours, Chad himself seems mesmerised by the colours and pulls out his phone to take photos. Our final stop is Hanegi Forest on a quiet ...