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While searching for places to take my family I came across a site talking about winter cherry blossoms.. I was utterly taken back-winter cherry blossoms??? -cherry blossoms are normally bloom during spring. The more I read about them the more I had to go and see what they were all about.

Located between Saitama and Gunma prefecture, the park with the winter cherry blossoms is called Zyou Park. The road to the park was extremely narrow and windy. When we finally reached our destination I couldn’t believe we were still in Saitama prefecture-the waterfalls, rivers and mountains full of fall colors….really impressive.

Unexpectedly the park was really crowded. Tour buses and people were scattered everywhere-really was hard to find parking. When we finally got to the park we were surprised to see that the cherry blossoms were not as colorful as we had hoped. I guess you can describe it as a more subtle beauty. (Evidently we missed the peak bloom and the flowers were more white than pink). Still with the autumn colors it was impressive-truly wabi sabi. I was also told that this type of cherry blossom blooms again in the spring. B

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