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These past few years, I thought that I have taken so many photos of cherry blossoms so far and so I won\u2019t go to take photos of cherry blossoms this year before their blooming. When cherry blossoms finally started blooming, however, I went here and there to take photos of cherry blossoms. So, you see, I took a lot of photos of cherry blossoms this year too. Any Japanese including me loves cherry blossoms, because, maybe, we can notice that spring has come by the start of cherry blossom season. These days, besides places famous for cherry blossoms, we can see cherry blossoms anywhere, for example, in parks newly developed, and as street trees. The most common is Someiyoshino, which is a variety of artificially created cherry tree, and you generally see it in Japan now. It has many advantages, for example, the number can be easily increased, it grows fast, and many flowers open at once. The flowering time of cherry blossoms becomes a topic of conversation every year. According to one of the forecasts, it is said that when the sum of the highest temperatures from the first of February is more than 600 degrees Celsius, the cherry blossoms may come out.
\nI\u2019ll tell you about the cherry blossoms seen this year below.<\/p>\n
1. Kyoto Gyoen (Kyoto Imperial Palace Park)
\nKyoto Gyoen, having an area of about 100 hectares, was a place where emperors lived and engaged in politics over 1,000 years from the Heian Period to the Meiji Period, and a court noble residence area was formed so that the residences enclosed Kyoto Gosho (the Imperial Palace) in the late Edo Period. In the Meiji Period, the Imperial Palace and the court noble residences fell into ruin for a while, because the capital was moved to Tokyo and so the Emperor and court nobles moved to Tokyo. The place, however, was turned into a park removing the residences and planting trees and shrubs by Kyoto Prefecture and Kyoto citizens (Ouchi Preservation Activity). Kyoto Gyoen has some facilities such as Kyoto Guest House in addition to Kyoto Gosho.
\nAbout 60 weeping cherry trees are planted in the site of Konoe Residence in Kyoto Gyoen, which are well-known as early blooming cherry trees. The cherry trees were in full bloom when I went there on the 30th of March, and I was satisfied with the blossoms in the early afternoon and towards nightfall.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"