Hiroshima is celebrating the 41st anniversary one of the biggest annual flower festival, themed “An ever peaceful future filled with flowers.”
The event takes place at Hiroshima’s 100m wide Peace Boulevard amid carnivalesque atmosphere.
Followed by first baseball championship win of Hiroshima Carp in 1975, the particularly popular event takes place every year from May 3 to May 5. Thousands of people throng to the noisy, crowded and vibrant festival in spite of the garish commercial decorations.
The 41st Flower Festival of Hiroshima, themed 'An ever peaceful future filled with flowers'
Courtesy: Sharat ChowdhuryThe three-day-long festival is popular for its symbolic flower tower made of 8000 blooms in front of the Peace Museum.
The Peace Flower Project installation in the peace memorial park, the colorful parades, concerts of pop bands, celebrities, comedians and hundreds of local hula clubs performances, and local
kagura dance troupes are among a handful of examples of the event’s attractions.
The picturesque “Flower Candle Message” event, with its thousands of peace crane lanterns, illuminates the celebration during the night. This part of the event also allows people to commemorate August 6, the day Hiroshima was bombed.Hiroshima is celebrating its 41st one of the biggest annual event Flower Festival, themed “An ever peaceful future filled with flowers”, at Hiroshima’s 100m wide Peace Boulevard, with its carnivalesque atmosphere.
The Flower Festival of Hiroshima takes place at Hiroshima’s 100m wide Peace Boulevard amid carnivalesque atmosphere
Courtesy: Sharat ChowdhuryFollowed by first championship of Hiroshima Carp in 1975, this particularly popular event takes place every year between May 3 and May 5, pulling in dozens of thousands of people, in its crowded, noisy, and high in kitsch and overtly commercial decorations and events.
The two day long festival is popular for its symbolic flower tower made of 8000 blooms in front of the Peace Museum, the Peace Flower Project installation in the peace memorial park, the colorful parades, concerts of pop bands, celebrities, comedians and hundreds of local hula clubs performances, and local
kagura dance troupes.
The picturesque “Flower Candle Message” event, with its thousands of the peace crane lanterns, illuminates the celebration during the night. This part of the event also allows people to make a gesture of commemoration for the August 6, as well.
