Place famous for plum blossoms Spots in Yamaguchi Area
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- Yamaguchi
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- Hagi Okan Bairin-en Garden
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- Yamaguchi Hagi-shi Tsubaki 1125
- This plum garden spreads along the old Hagi Okan road, which saw over many of the great figures, patriotic samurais of the Restoration. The garden spreads over about 9,600 square meters, and has about 350 trees of 13 varieties. It was opened in 1992 to celebrate the 160th anniversary of Yoshida Shoin's birth. The scarlet-plum type double-blossomed Hi no Tsukasa is the earliest bloomer, and after it comes the single-bloom Bungo Japanese plum, weeping plum Gyokko Shidare, and others to bring the trees to brilliant color. Most years, the peak season is from late February through mid-March. The Hagi Okan Plum Garden festival coincides with full-bloom.
Yamaguchi Areas
Heading west along Japan’s largest island, Honshu, the very last prefecture you’ll reach is Yamaguchi, separated from Kyushu by a small strip of water known as the Kanmon Straits, which the far-reaching harbor city Shimonoseki looks over. With water at every turn, the seafood of Yamaguchi is an indisputable highlight, and we’re not talking just the usual fish dishes - the notorious fugu, or puffer fish, is a Japanese delicacy that was discovered in Yamaguchi prefecture, making it the best place to try it out.
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