Shibazakura
- Culture, Japan
- (beautiful • COK • festivals • flowers • Mt. Fuji • nature • places to visit in Japan • sakura • Shibazakura • tourist spots • travel • Yamanashi)
14 tips for visiting the Mt Fuji Shibazakura Festival, where beautiful “lawn sakura” blossom
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Oona McGee
May 18, 2016
With its stunning scenery and fragrant beauty, this is one spring festival you don’t want to miss!
- Culture, Japan
- (festivals • flowers • Mt. Fuji • places to visit in Japan • sakura • Shibazakura • tourist spots • travel • Yamanashi)
Man creates a glorious garden of scented flowers to make his blind wife smile again
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Oona McGee
Feb 16, 2016
This elderly couple turned their sad future around with the beauty of flowers and now thousands of people visit them when their garden blooms each year.
- Japan
- (flowers • heartwarming • love • Miyazaki • romance • Shibazakura • tourist sites • travel)
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