The Japanese are happy to to the top of a traditional spring holiday - the cherry blossom. From year to year, this plant blooms in early spring, and it lasts about a week, during which all try to enjoy the sakura residents and numerous visitors.

Cherry blossom, cherry blossom week in Japan

The tradition of admiring sakura is even his name - the Khans. He appeared in Japan in the VII century AD and is popular until now. Hanami has a sound basis. Itself cherry blossoms associated with human life, and her week of flowering - with its fragility. Therefore, it must contemplate every moment, not distracted by the everyday bustle.
Waiting for the first hanami residents of the south, where the cherry blossoms in late March. To the north will get blooms only in May. In Tokyo, most viewers will go to Ueno Park, where it grows more than a thousand cherry trees in Kyoto, the most popular river Kamogawa and surroundings of the temple Daigodzi, and Osaka people gather around the city's castle to admire the 4,000 cherry trees, cherry blossoms, blooming at once .

Sakura, cherry blossoms

Recall that the cherry blossoms in spring, flowers have color from bright pink to white. The annual cherry blossom period lasts less than a week. Sakura - Japanese name for ornamental trees, referring to the form of finely Cherry, and its inflorescence. March 27, starting with a 4-year Heisei (1992) NGO "Society of Japanese Sakura cherry blossom festival is introduced. This festival is held in all parts of Japan, the timing depends on the time of flowering cherry.