Experience the Cherry Blossom Festival
Beautiful cherry blossom trees that bloom each spring can be found across Japan. In Japan, people flock to the Cherry Blossom Festival, also known as Hanami, to take in the cherry blossoms and enjoy picnics beneath the trees. The festival is appropriate for people of all ages and offers a wonderful chance to learn about Japanese culture.
To honor the friendship between the United States and Japan, the mayor of Tokyo presented 3,000 cherry trees to the city of Washington, DC, back in 1912.
The region's most well-known attraction now is the pink-and-white blooms, and the National Cherry Blossom Festival, which draws hundreds of thousands of people over several weeks in March and April, is the most well-liked event there.
Take a stroll along Independence Avenue, along the Tidal Basin to the Jefferson Memorial, or sign up for a free tour with a guide to learn about the trees' origins in Washington, DC. At the Tidal Basin, you can rent paddleboats to take in the scenery from the water. Additionally, excursions on the Potomac River provide breathtaking views of the monuments and cherry trees. Bike and Roll's two-hour Flowers By Bike trip, the festival's official bike tour, offers a thorough bicycle tour of the blossoms. Peak bloom normally happens in the first few days of April, however the exact date changes every year based on the weather.
