Hamamatsu "Higashi-Oyama Kawazu Cherry Blossom Festival 2025: The largest cherry blossom and rape blossom festival in western Shizuoka Prefecture, celebrating its 10th anniversary"

The Higashi-Oyama Kawazu Cherry Blossom Festival 2025, the largest of its kind in western Shizuoka Prefecture and beloved by many visitors, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. It's located approximately 3km from the Hamamatsu-Nishi Interchange on the Tomei Expressway and about 9km north-northwest of JR Hamamatsu Station, along the road leading to Lake Hamana...

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Hamamatsu, Lake Sanaru: "The Sakai couple, dog lovers, and their Chihuahua gathering" - A tea party with dogs at Lake Sanaru during the cherry blossom season (50% in bloom).

This spring, due to the unusually warm winter, the cherry blossom (Somei Yoshino) blooming announcement was delayed nationwide. At my home, I hosted a tea party, dubbed the "Sanaru Lake Chihuahua Club," with the Chihuahuas owned by Mr. and Mrs. Sakai, owners of the Fukuroi hair salon "SWITCH/switch+." It was a weekday...

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Sanaru Lake Cherry Blossom Viewing: "A pleasant holiday spent under the cherry trees with a homemade bento box."

Lake Sanaru, famous as a cherry blossom viewing spot in spring, boasts approximately 800 cherry trees blooming in succession throughout its 6km circumference, including Kawazu cherry blossoms, Kanzanji cherry blossoms, Somei Yoshino, Oshima cherry blossoms, mountain cherry blossoms, weeping cherry blossoms, and double-flowered cherry blossoms. Every year, I look down on Lake Sanaru from my home...

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Enjoy the cherry blossoms at the "Sakura Festival" held at Hamamatsu Castle Park, where you can admire 340 cherry trees and enjoy a picnic lunch.

I went to the "Sakura Festival" being held from March 25th (Sun) to April 8th (Sun), 2018, at Hamamatsu Castle Park, the castle where Tokugawa Ieyasu resided for 17 years in his youth and which became the starting point of the 300-year Edo Shogunate! The festival features mainly Somei Yoshino cherry trees, but also weeping cherry trees, mountain cherry trees...

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