Why Cherry blossom festival 2020?

A visit to Japan during sakura (cherry blossom) season is a rare pleasure, and highly recommended. Although the weather can be chilly and damp, the hotels full and the streets clogged with revelers, the sight of the delicate blossoms and their intoxicating effect on the people make for a wonderful experience. You will have more ways to enjoy cherry blossoms if you visit other popular tourist attractions.

When do the Cherry Blossoms Bloom?

The slow-moving cherry blossom front (sakura-zensen) is tediously tracked by the Japan Meteorological Agency and moves from south to north as warmer temperatures trigger trees to begin blooming.

Hanami typically begins around late March and lasts until early May with the first blooms appearing on the islands around Okinawa. The last chance to enjoy blooms is typically in cooler, northern parts of Japan such as Hakkaido.

The cherry blossoms usually appear in Tokyo and Kyoto sometime between March and April, depending upon the climate that year. Golden Week -- the busiest time for travel in Japan -- often coincides in some places with the blooming cherry blossoms.

How to Enjoy Cherry Blossom Festivals?

Simply choose a place with blooming cherry blossoms and enjoy! Festivals pop up all over Japan in public spaces.

Celebrations include performing arts, music, parades, lanterns, special foods, and vendors selling handmade goods.

As evening approaches, festivities often turn more into good-natured revelry as sake flows throughout the day. Elderly Japanese sometimes opt to visit Japanese plum parks to view ume instead, as these areas are often less busy and rowdy.

Learn how to say cheers in Japanese and some drinking etiquette in case you are invited.

The Symbolic Significance of Cherry Blossoms

Because cherry blossoms are beautiful and fleeting -- the blooms often last no more than two weeks -- they have become symbolic for the impermanence of beauty. Cherry blossoms are often featured in works or art and even tattoos to depict the Japanese concept of mono no aware, or the wistful realization that nothing lasts forever.

Festival Food

Hanami Bento: Spring in a Box

No Cherry Blossom viewing party is complete without colorful hanami bentos. Specially prepared by professional chefs and home cooks throughout Japan for their customers and loved ones to enjoy during this important spring festival, these delightful bento boxes are brimming with the bounty of the season. They are meant to represent not only the cherry blossoms, but the arrival of Spring, so pink, red and orange hues predominate. Thus, the bentos might include shrimp, salmon and sakuradai (pink sea bream) sushi, simmered kabocha (pumpkin) and carrot, and sakura mochi: savory-sweet pink-tinged rice dumplings filled with anko (bean paste) and wrapped in salty preserved sakura leaves.

Cherry blossom festival 2020 Location:

Throughout Japan, but especially good at Yoshino town. And there are many famous cherry blossom viewing spots in Tokyo, including Ueno Onshi Park, Asukayama Park, the Meguro River, Chidorigafuchi, and more.

Cherry blossom festival 2020 Dates:

Dates may be changed according to when the flowers open.