Wednesday, 26 August 2015
The cherry blossoms are characteristic flower of Japan and becomes the pride of the Japanese people. For the Japanese people, the sakura flower symbolizes joy and sorrow. Flowering of cherry blossoms signify joy because everyone will be happy when the cherry blossoms bloom. Cherry blossoms begin to fall and the flowers will soon deciduous make people is sad because a beautiful flower can only be seen next year. The sakura flower teach people to always be grateful for every life because of always has joy and sorrow, no meetings means no separation, it also teaches that there are time for a person reaches the beauty (success) of in their lives.
The emergence of the cherry blossoms are always waiting for everyone because the cherry blossoms bloom only for 2 weeks in a year. The Sakura flower is always blooming in the end of March to the beginning of April. Besides having beautiful flowers, it also produces cherries, in Japanese is called Sakuranbo. Although the cherries are produced is similar to cherries are packed in cans, but the cherries produced from the cherry blossoms were smaller and not good to eat. Cherries which commonly eaten not generated from the cherry blossoms that have beautiful flowers. Cherry blossoms that produce cherries are usually grown on the estate and its flower is usually not to be enjoyed.
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Briefly, Hanami is a tourism under the cherry blossoms during cherry blossom season. Hanami or Hanami is an activity enjoy the beauty of cherry blossoms, usually only done when the cherry blossoms are blooming. Hanami tradition has been carried out since 794. Visitor usually sit with a mat and bring supplies of food such as dango, bento, and sake. The flowering of the cherry blossoms becomes a sign that spring has come. Ueno park became one of the favorite places to enjoy the beauty of the cherry blossoms. Every year, more than two million people enliven Hanami in the Ueno park. Japan is one country that is very concerned about the cleanliness of the environment so that the garbage problem became very important in Ueno Park. The local government provides 30 bins and distribute 5,000 bags of trash in order to the visitors bring home their garbage.
The location of the Ueno Park is Ueno, district of Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The Ueno station is the nearest station from Ueno park. From Shibuya station toward Ueno station using the Tokyo Metro Ginza needs time of 27 minutes with the cost is JPY 200. From Shinjuku station to Ueno station using the JR Yamanote line takes 26 minutes and costs of JPY 200. From Tokyu station to Ueno station using the JR Yamanote takes 10 minutes and costs of JPY 160. The other locations which is frequently used for Hanami is Shiba park, Yoyogi park, Koganei park, ark hills Sakura, Yasukuni shrine, Shinjuku Gyoen, Meguro river, and Kitazawa Gawa street in Setagaya.
