It is the season of
flower of the plum tree.
Kairaku-en Garden in
Mito City of Ibaragi Prefecture is the famous place of the plum tree.
Prince Mito feudal
clan ninth charges feudal lord Nariaki Tokugawa established Kairaku-en Garden
as "the place that enjoyed a large number of people” in Mito-shi, Ibaraki
in 1842.
Kairakuen was
appointed in the historic spot of the country and the natural beauty spot and
have been counted in one of three famous Japan garden along with Koraku-en
Garden of Okayama-shi and Kenroku-en Garden of Kanazawa-shi..
The plum of 3,000
approximately 100 kinds is planted in Kairaku-en Garden, and plum Festival of
Mito is started in the end of February every year in the end of March.
The plum Festival
of Mito is full of a large number of tourists, and many kinds of entertainments
including a night plum festival and the tea party to light up a plum using
candlelight are performed.
There was the news
that the flower of the plum flowered in January for a mild winter of the
beginning of this year, and a plum flowers seem to begin to bloom even in
Kairaku-en Garden now.
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