It attracts tourists throughout the year, but really ramps up during cherry blossom season.
Tourists elsewhere in the world, though, are trying to make the sakura (cherry blossom) a symbol of hope.
For a bit of exploring, embark on the Capitol Hill Cherry Blossom Food Tour.
FORBES: Celebrate Spring At The National Cherry Blossom Festival
C. is getting into the spirit with two special packages: Sakura and Cherry Blossom Give-A-Tree.
FORBES: Celebrate Spring At The National Cherry Blossom Festival
As with most festivals in South Korea, the Jinhae Cherry Blossom Festival can be crowded.
However, during cherry blossom season, the park becomes crowded and noisy due to its extremely popular, huge weeping trees.
Boozy picnics on a mass scale occur in parks boasting cherry blossom trees, as hanami fever grips the land.
Downtown Hotel, and guests will be treated to cherry blossom-inspired dishes from more than 30 different D.
FORBES: Celebrate Spring At The National Cherry Blossom Festival
People are cutting back on everything from shopping trips to hanami parties to view the spring cherry blossom.
Shops are flooded with cherry blossom merchandise and food, the colour pink suddenly popping up in decorative garlands and flower-shaped sweets.
The festival's president, Diana Mayhew, told news outlets last week that the cherry blossom symbolizes rebirth and renewal.
At night, the area is lit up for cherry blossom viewing and food stalls are set up with a variety of snacks.
For visitors, the Jinhae Cherry Blossom Festival makes a memorable day trip.
Cherry blossom festivals are still under way, but tourists are hesitant to visit a country coping with death, destruction and now the dangers of radiation.
In Japan, cherry blossom season brings an even more sombre tone.
Hanami is an important Japanese custom, when locals break free of their conservative reputation and enjoy a picnic with friends and family under the cherry blossom trees.
Along with the Kitty images, the app describes local highlights such as cherry blossom viewing in Tokyo or udon noodles on the island of Shikoku.
Some days you really do feel like the peaceful nature of a cherry blossom pink, and others you might feel like a goofy bubblegum pink.
Thousands of American tourists, clogging Washington's streets in search of cherry blossom, have every reason to be alarmed - except they do not seem to be.
The annual festival, which celebrates Japan's friendship with the US, began 99 years ago when Japan gave the country thousands of cherry blossom trees as a gift.
Both natural events bring the Japanese out en masse to celebrate the changing seasons, with hanami (cherry blossom viewing) parties in the springtime and momiji-gari (maple leaf viewing) in the fall.
The special treatment begins with a warm exfoliating cream made with cherry blossom rice powder, followed by an exfoliating massage, foot massage and full-body massage using melted Shea butter.
FORBES: Celebrate Spring At The National Cherry Blossom Festival
Cherry blossom fans commonly seek photo ops of train tracks beneath a canopy of pink flowers, and around Yeojwa stream and promenade, which is lined with blossoming trees and canola flowers.
In the US, the National Cherry Blossom Festival kicked off last week in Washington DC with a fundraising walk and vigil for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
In 2007 Mr. Okada chose to build on the current piece of land because he liked that there was a traditional house across the street and a shrine next door with a big cherry blossom tree.
Kodai-ji is a historic Zen temple located in the scenic Higashiyama area and was one of the first temples to kick off after-dark illuminations (when the gardens are lit by multicoloured spotlights), allowing cherry blossom viewing to continue well into the night.
The Hitachi Furyumono is a parade held during the cherry blossom festival each April in Hitachi City on the Pacific coast in the middle of Japan, and once every seven years in May during the Great Festival at the local Kamine Shrine.
For the annual cherry blossom festival, one community presents its float each year, but for the Great Festival at Kamine Shrine, the four communities compete to see whose puppeteers are the most skilled and which can provide the best hospitality to the local deity.
Aside from being seasonally apt, the dish perfectly articulated Benu's point of view: With the torchon, he was referencing his past at the French Laundry (there's a signature foie gras au torchon on that institution's menu), and with the Japanese ankimo and cherry blossom, he was mining the legacy of the city's substantial East and Southeast Asian populations.
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