Kanagawa, Feb 03 (News On Japan) –
The annual Odawara Plum Festival is an indication that spring has arrived early this 12 months in Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, with white plum blossoms already at their peak as of Risshun (the primary day of spring within the conventional Japanese calendar) on February 4th.
Soga Bairin, Odawara’s plum grove, has kicked off its conventional Plum Festival. The Soga space, recognized for its plum manufacturing for the reason that Warring States interval, has opened its groves to share the fragile fantastic thing about white plum blossoms with guests.
With roughly 35,000 bushes, this 12 months’s bloom has began early as a result of heat winter climate.
The Plum Festival will proceed till February twenty ninth, providing guests an opportunity to indulge within the early arrival of spring amidst the historic and picturesque plum groves of Odawara.
Source: ANN