Cherry blossom front

As a cherry blossom front (Japanese桜 前线, Sakura censuses ) in Japan is called the Northeast after withdrawing from the southwest by the state line, from which the cherry trees are in bloom. The cherry blossom is in Japan every year from March to April a media event, starting around March 24, at the southern tip of Kyushu. From there, the front travels northeast. After about a week she passed the Kansai area, Sendai in Tohoku to 20 April. The season ends at around 10 May in Hokkaido. Throughout the time to report the daily news on the degree of opening of the flowers in the different areas of Japan.

The time of the cherry blossom is a preferred vacation and travel season in Japan.

The cherry blossom is one of the classic symbols in Japanese poetry.

Hanami, the cherry blossom viewing, is an important social event in the spring, which takes in the whole country, especially in urban areas, carnival -like character.

The cherry is not the only flower that inspired the Japanese poet, and so every month a bloom is attributed. Before the cherry trees in April, the plum (梅, ume ) blossom in February and the peach trees (桃, momo ) in March, and these flowers also attract as a "front " about Japan.