I hear tell there's a plum-blossom festival on Tsukuba-san this weekend (Sunday?).

Does anyone know anything about it?


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hey
have a look at what they had to say in Tsukublog article
http://blog.alientimes.org/2007/02/mount-tsukuba-plum-festival/

I went up there over a week ago with Emi and it was almost in full bloom, so I reckon it'll be on the downslide pretty much from now. It's worth a visit ... they have some stalls and stuff you can buy pickles and what not. The usual festival fare. But the garden is a pretty nice spot. One of my favourite places, even out of season. I'll have sone photos on the blog in a while, so you can check them out if you like ...

I went on Sunday with some friends who knew what they were doing. It was very full bloom, only a handful of petals starting to fall, and TONS of people (yikes!). There was even a taiko performance :0)

Despite the business it was great, hanami under the plum trees eating yaki soba.... mmm-mm.

We also hit up the jinja, and got our fortunes. Evidently I need to be more patient.


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Glad you made it. Nice up there, eh?

According to my fortune, this is a bumper year for good luck and career/business success ... We'll see. Hope so. It'd be about time.

Here's the blog link anyway, just in case you need another dose of plum blossom photos ...

http://jasonsomethingstuff.spaces.live.com/