The Japanese Garden
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Hanami means looking at flowers and it's the way the Japanese enjoy the coming of spring: it can be a picnic under the branches of a blooming cherry tree or an outdoor party. Hanami can also take place at night, in which case it is called yozakura.
It is not mandatory to go all the way to Japan for hanami (although it wouldn't be bad either), you can enjoy the blossoming trees in Bucharest as well.
I thought of going to the Japanese Garden in Herăstrău Park, the only one in Bucharest that I know of. It is rather modest, but it has the necessary elements of a Japanese garden and, above all, it has rows of trees that have just blossomed.
I also saw some Japanese people with a small child who were enjoying the beautiful, but cold weather, outside the garden was set up in 1998 with the support of the Japanese Embassy and the Commemorative Foundation of the Japanese World Exhibition. I would have liked a pavilion, like the one in the Botanical Garden in Cluj, and the ponds to have water and, possibly, live fish, like in Japan, and even a sand garden or a green moss garden, why not?
