The brilliant Lone Sakura with the legacy

Miharu Takizakura Fukushima Blossoms cascade like a waterfall from the top of a large Beni-shidare tree (red weeping cherry blossom), leaving a stream of petals on the ground. Illuminated by the evening light-up, the sight of this gorgeous sakura leaves no heart unmoved. Address: 91 Sakurakubo, Taki, Miharumachi, Tamura-gun, Fukushima

Magnificent Rock-breaking Sakura Iwate Once small and wiry, the edohiganzakura tree stands today in its full glory through the cracks of a gigantic rock. The 360-year-old spectacle of nature known as the “rock breaking sakura” is located at the site of Morioka District Court. The place was formerly the garden of the Kita family, one of the three families that ruled the Nanbu han in the Edo period (around 1700s). How people of the time moved the rock without the kind of heavy machinery today remains a mystery. Address: 9-1 Uchimaru, Morioka-shi, Iwate

Lone Sakura Tree at Koiwai Farm Iwate Tohoku’s highlight; Edohiganzakura with Mt. Iwate as backdrop. This sakura is a symbol of spring in Iwate. Address: 36-1 Maruyachi, Shizukuishi-cho, Iwate-gun, Iwate

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