One of Tohoku’s two big Sakuras, Hirosaki Park’s Sakura. Its unique characteristics are that by using the apple’s prune techniques, from one bud twice as much flowers blossom. Hirosaki’s sakura front is usually at the end of April. This year, because it was still cold in April, the front came during the time of golden [...]

Located at the almost center of the Nirasaki terrace, in between Takeda area and Kita Miyaji area, is the one big round rising cherry blossom tree on top of Wanizuka.

Estimated to live 320 years, height 17m, trunk circumference 3.4m, length of branches 23m, is one of the Edo Prunus subhirtella Miq.