Seattle Japanese Garden Cherry Blossom
Celebrate and experience the japanese culture through taiko drumming live dances and performances arts and crafts food and more.
Seattle japanese garden cherry blossom. The seattle cherry blossom japanese cultural festival the seattle cherry blossom japanese cultural festival is held annually in april at the seattle center. These trees do not occur in the wild they result instead from complex crosses involving various cherry tree species native to or. Every year there is also the seattle cherry blossom japanese cultural festival taking place in the seattle center at 305 harrison st. The second shipment of cherry trees arrived in seattle from yokohama in good health and was transferred to washington d c in february 1912.
The cherry trees were mostly leafed out by april 10 2020. You can still enjoy the facebook photo album and aerial cherry blossom tour. Seattle japanese garden is 3 5 acre urban sanctuary. The festival was initiated in 1976 with a gift of 1 000 cherry trees given to seattle by takeo miki the former prime minister of japan thousands of people attend the festival to sit on the grass eating a picnic and enjoying traditional japanese music and.
The term sato zakura literally village cherries refers to flowering cherries of garden origin that are grown for their floral display. The cherry blossom trees at the japanese garden tend to bloom a week or two after the trees at uw so this can be a great destination if you re a few steps behind the peak blossoms. And if you want more on japanese us connection head to seattle center on april 13 15 for seattle cherry blossom japanese cultural festival at the fisher pavilion you can learn the game go participate in a tea ceremony demonstration enjoy delicious food taiko drumming japanese artisan demonstrations and artwork. The flowers of cherry trees have been admired by the people of china korea and japan for over 1300 years.
Connected to the washington park arboretum the seattle japanese garden is a separate entity and has an entry fee. The earliest blooming varieties of plum and cherry blossom trees along seattle city streets could start to bloom the weekend of march 14 2020 particularly if the weather warms up and the sun comes out.