Spring always comes with flowers... no doubt the most famous spring flower is Sakura,
but Ume(plum) is also so beautiful.
Ume starts to bloom from February, before Sakura blooms from late in March or early in April.
So, we can enjoy Ume blossoms first and then go to see Japan's symbolic flower "Sakura".
I visited mount Tsukuba again in early March to see Ume during Ume Matsuri(plum festival).
There are many famous Ume watching spot such as Japanese garden and mountain.
In Mt.Tsukuba, white, pink and red pretty Ume flowers are scattered beautifully.
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| plums in Tsukuba mountain. it was so beautiful in nature. |
It was not in full blossom, but I could enjoy early spring in mountain.
I went to the most famous Ume seeing spot "Kairakuen" garden in Mito(Mito is in Ibaraki prefecture too.) around the middle of March.
Sakura will be in full blossom soon in Tokyo.
Maybe I will go to see Sakura this weekend.
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| walking around trail in Ume grove. |
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| red ume was in full blossom while white ume are budding. |
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| tsukuba udon(noodle) paste umeboshi added spring flavor. another offers are ume yokan（梅羊羹）, umesyu（梅酒） and umeboshi（梅干し） etc. |
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| after watching ume, I visited tsukuba shrine. |
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| in a bus to tsukuba station. Lucas happily joined me to see ume. |
★Tsukuba Mountain(my late post about Tsukuba)
★Mt.Tsukuba Ume Matsuri(Ibaraki Navi)
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