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Makuyama, Blooming Trees, and Soft Serve: Yugawara’s Ume Festival

Susan Spann 1000 Summits, Blog, Hikes March 7, 2022March 5, 2022hiking in Japan, Japanese plum blossoms, Makuyama, Makuyama Koen, ume, ume matsuri

Last weekend (February 26), I headed south to the town of Yugawara, in Shizuoka Prefecture, to climb a mountain and attend an ume matsuri–a festival dedicated to the blooming plum tree blossoms (known as ume in Japanese).