Hiroshima Flower Festival

Hiroshima Flower Festival

The Hiroshima Flower Festival is the Festival for the world Peace from Hiroshima, Japan with smiles of the people with flowers.

Overview

Hiroshima Flower Festival has been held every year from the 3rd to the 5th of May, during Golden Week since 1977.

Local citizens participate in the parade and Yosakoi dancing on Peace Boulevard.

There are a lot of stages, shops, a small zoo and other amusement attractions along Peace Boulevard and in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. A lot of concerts, dancing shows, fashion shows, talk shows, traditional and contemporary performances featuring local citizens and other events are held throughout the area.

The origin of the Flower Festival is the Central League Champion parade for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in 1975.

More than one million people take part in the festival each year.

External links

* [http://www.hiroshima-ff.com/ Hiroshima Flower Festival]


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