A photo of "Hanaikada" in Hirosaki Park has been posted on Twitter and has been receiving a lot of attention.

A flower raft is a word that resembles a scattered cherry blossom petal floating on the surface of the water, and is a spring season word. The garden is surrounded by a moat at the site of Hirosaki Castle, and scattered cherry blossom petals tend to accumulate. It is likened to "cherry carpet" and "cherry tatami mat", and some tourists from Japan and abroad come to see the flower rafts as "beautiful even if they are scattered".

The beginning of the topic was a tweet posted on April 23 by the Twitter account "Ryuuichi Yoneyama" who visited from Aomori City to shoot cherry blossoms. When I tweeted "This year's Hirosaki Park has a really beautiful pink carpet!" (Original Mama) with a photo of the flower basket, 16,000 retweets and more than 76,000 likes were received (April 25). As of 17:00 on the day).

According to Yoneyama, the photo was taken at the moat in front of Hirosaki Summary Court around 11:00 on the same day. "I mark the flower rafts every year, but this year the colors were especially beautiful and I felt better," says Yoneyama. In response to the tweet, there were reactions such as "I want to walk on (the flower raft)", "I want to see it before I die", and "I want to go back to Hirosaki to see it".

According to Ms. Makiko Hashiba, a tree doctor in the Park and Greenery Division, who manages the cherry blossoms in the park, the cherry blossoms in Sotobori have been working to restore the tree vigor since 2017 (Heisei 29), and it is a result that has appeared over five years. "We put a lot of effort into the field so that many flowers can bloom for one flower bud, which is a characteristic of Hirosaki Park. I'm glad that the trees are back in shape and there is a positive reaction from the cherry blossom viewers." Mr. Hashiba.

When the petals float on the surface of the water, they are gradually soaked and the color becomes dull. Mr. Hashiba said, "Since the temperature has been higher than normal since it was in full bloom this year, the timing of the cherry blossoms was close to each other, and the petals that had just fallen were accumulated, and it may have looked beautiful." Talk to.

"The best time to see the flower rafts will continue until April 27. In addition to the flower rafts, there are late-blooming cherry blossoms in the park, so I hope you enjoy it until the end of the Hirosaki Cherry Blossom Festival."

The Hirosaki Cherry Blossom Festival is open until May 5th.