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2. Public holidays in Japan - Wikipedia

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   Date Remarks Ref. New Year's Day (元日, Ganjitsu) January 1 This national holiday was established in 1948, as a day to celebrate the new year. New Year's Day marks the beginning of Japan's most important holiday season, the New Year season (正月, Shōgatsu), which generally refers to the first one, three or seven days of the year. Although ...

3. Matsuyama Shiroyama Koen Cherry Blossom Festival - Wikipedia

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   The Matsuyama Shiroyama Koen Cherry Blossom Festival is held every year in early April in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The Matsuyama Castle is lit up with paper lanterns at night until 9 PM. People eat home-cooked meals or take-out food under the cherry blossom tree, combined with drinking sake, talking and singing songs.

4. Cherry blossom front - Wikipedia

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   The Yoshino cherry is typically observed since, from the late Edo period, it has been planted across the archipelago. [7] Sample trees also include the Higan cherry in the south and Prunus sargentii (Sargent's cherry) in the north. [7] In 2006 it was reported that the cherry blossoms might overtake the plum blossoms before reaching Hokkaidō. [8]

5. Swap spring cherry blossom for autumn leaves for the most ...

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   Cherry blossoms mean big business for Japan: each year, an estimated 63 million local and international tourists travel to and across the country to witness this candyfloss spectacle, spending $2 ...

6. Hanami - Wikipedia

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   These sakura trees continue to be a popular tourist attraction, and every year, the National Cherry Blossom Festival takes place when they bloom in early spring. [28] In Macon, Georgia, another cherry blossom festival called the International Cherry Blossom Festival is celebrated every spring. Macon is known as the Cherry Blossom Capital of the ...

7. Japanese festivals - Wikipedia

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   Japanese festivals, or matsuri (Japanese: 祭り), are traditional festive occasions often celebrated with dance and music in Japan.The origin of the word matsuri is related to the kami (神, Shinto deities); there are theories that the word matsuri is derived from matsu (待つ) meaning "to wait (for the kami to descend)", tatematsuru (献る) meaning "to make offerings to the kami", and ...

8. Japan gifts 250 new cherry trees to D.C., replacing those to ...

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   Japan is gifting the United States 250 new cherry trees, Prime Minister Kishida and President Biden announced during a state visit at the White House. Japan gifts 250 new cherry trees to D.C ...

9. National Cherry Blossom Festival - Wikipedia

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   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 ...