Hirosaki City announced on March 26th that the "Hirosaki Sakura Festival" has been cancelled.

After discussing with Hirosaki City, Hirosaki Tourism Convention, Hirosaki Chamber of Commerce and Hirosaki City Product Association, we decided to cancel the event scheduled for April 23 to May 6 at Hirosaki Park. In principle, it is prohibited to open about 200 stalls and eat and drink in the park.

According to the city's announcement, it will carry out some kind of infection prevention measures without lighting up at night and setting up lanterns, without restricting entrance to the park.

The Hirosaki Sakura Festival started in 1918 as the "Hirosaki Kanjokai", and has been canceled three times until 1944 (Showa 19) since the Pacific War, and this year this year. It will be the 100th anniversary of the event.

Former Mayor Hirohiro Sakurada says, "We have banned store openings and banquets, but this year will be the 100th time, including preparations up to now and measures against new coronavirus infections in the future."

Mayor Sakurada said, “We decided to discontinue the lives and health of citizens first. We postponed the Tokyo Olympics, and in Kanto, the infection spreads every day on weekends such as requesting refraining from going out. Cases in Aomori Prefecture However, if it was held and there were cases of infected people, we had to cancel it. Before that, it was a tough decision to cancel it."

The specific measures to prevent infection will be announced in the future, and posters will not be collected, but a new printed material will be prepared to announce the suspension. Following the announcement of cancellation, the 100th anniversary of the Hirosaki Kanzakurakai commemorative Kikuzo concert, which was scheduled on April 29, has been postponed, and the event by the Hirosaki Sakura Festival official support character "Sakura Miku" will not affect the spread of the new coronavirus infection. To implement. Details will be announced at any time on the Hirosaki Tourism and Convention Association website.