In Japan, the cherry blossoms bring work world to a standstill. By LAURA KING Tlie Associated Press. The Associated Press Merrymakers enjoy themselves under blooming cherry trees Saturday afternoon at Tokyo's Ueno Park. The gridlock at the ...
Cherry-blossom time brings out spirit of community, celebration in Tokyo. By ... Ueno Park a long promenade of cherry trees overhung the broad walkways One ... in blankets and scraps of plastic would lie in the cordoned. Sec SMITH on C2.
... for the pagoda would be beside the Tidal Basin, which the famed cherry trees, also a Japanese gift, en. circle. Howpver,. National. decision rests Capital Parks. The 16-foot bronze temple is made* of solid, hand-hewn granite. One stone ...
Cherry Blossom Rite Lets Japanese Relax. TOKYO (AP) — Japanese by the hundreds of thousands turned out here Sunday for the seasonal rite of cherry blossom viewing. The crowd in Ueno Park alone was estimated at 750.000. The normally ...
... in as spectacular a show as cherry blossom time in Tokyo's Ueno park, or Kobe's hill slopes. The place to be at for cherry blossom viewing in Seoul. is at Changgyong-won, an amusement park with a zoo. and always a hive of activity. If ...
... for my friends in front of the Asakusa Kannon Temple on the banks of the Sumida River, the oldest part of town. No cherry trees in sight, but plastic boughs festooned with shiny pink mylar blooms^ framed the temple's famous arcade, and ...
... blossom-viewing tours is here, buses and trams jammed with Japanese bent on enjoying the cherry flowers at Atami, Kyoto and farther south. An unseasonal snowfall postponed the blossoming in Tokyo, but by the middle of the month the parks ...
... in Ueno park, which is famous for its cherry blossoms. So, when the Japanese presented the lantern in 1953 the city fathers of Washington placed it at the Tidal basin, also famed for its cherry blossoms. Each year, ceremonies are held at ...
... cherry .blossom. J •/ During the first days of spring, \Vhen the cool of winter still envelops much of the nation ... Ueno Park in Tokyo, where 450,000 people — or 505 people per tree — viewed the blossoms on a sunny April 2, 1989.
Springtime in Tokyo. Under blooming cherry blossoms a Japanese woman, center, eats dumplings as a crowd of Tokyoites stroll through Ueno Park today. Amid spring temperatures soaring to 63 degrees, nearly 100,000 people flocked to the park ...