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| Monday, April 03, 2006 |
| Sakura season in Japan. |
Right now in Japan is Sakura or Hanami season, some people also call it Cherry Blosom season. They all mean the same thing, people getting together, getting drunk, singing songs, having barbeques and most importantly admiring the fleeting beauty of the Sakura.
Sakura only bloom for around two weeks a year but the season actually lasts around two months. Because Japan is quite a long country spring makes its way slowly from southern to northern Japan from around the end of March to the beginning of May. As the country starts to warm up the sakura follow. Sometimes if you are lucky you can experience them more than once. One year I was lucky enough to experience sakura down south in Fukuoka and then a week later in Hiroshima.
People usually gather under the trees and have parties, some even set up barbeques and sing songs on portable karaoke machines. By the afternoon a lot of people are drunk but it’s all good fun and most foreigners will have a hard time trying turn down invitations to join in, if you can you should, it’s a great cultural exchange, we have nothing like it. It’s also a romantic time and lots of couples will be out an about getting photographed among the trees.
The Hanami season is so popular that the evening news programs will report on where the sakura will be on certain days, give live telecasts from famous spots and display an animated map of their progress towards the north of Japan. The music charts will be full of songs called…you guessed it Sakura and this year there are around 20 of them. I think if you were to take all the lyrics of every song written about Sakura you would find they would stretch to the moon and back (this has not been proven and may not be entirely accurate). Some songs are good and some are not so good.
Some famous viewing spots are Ueno Park in Tokyo (it features of 1000 trees), The Philosophers walk in Kyoto and Himeji Castle.
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