{"id":8817,"date":"2016-04-26T21:39:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/?p=8817"},"modified":"2024-05-20T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T02:47:18","slug":"hanami-cherry-blossom-viewing-tohoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/hanami-cherry-blossom-viewing-tohoku\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there still time for hanami (cherry blossom viewing)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
You made it. You are ready for Japan. You are in Tokyo and you cannot wait to visit all the shrines and the temples and Harajuku and have a hanami<\/em> session to see all the pink cherry blossom (sakura<\/em>) trees. It is going to be epic. The morning you head out for hanami in Yoyogi park, equipped with your Japanese snacks, drinks and a blanket you are so excited, but then you arrive and… nothing. The pink blossoms have fallen and they no longer blanket the ground. Tokyo was in full bloom at the beginning of April. The parks were littered with pink and white cherry blossom trees and almost every inch of the ground contained a group of people participating in hamani with snacks, drinks and laughter. Now, mid-April, barely two weeks later, as if with one blow of the wind, they are gone. But allow me to share a little secret with you, although Tokyo is now barren of sakura, Tohoku, the northern region, is barely beginning so there is still time.<\/p>\n\n\n