Moscow people lined up to watch the cherry blossom bloom

The Japanese Garden within the Main Botanical Garden (Russian Academy of Sciences) is one of the hottest destinations in Moscow, Russia during the early May holiday.

Japanese Garden on the grounds of the Main Botanical Garden (Russian Academy of Sciences) The Japanese Garden within the Main Botanical Garden (Russian Academy of Sciences) is one of the hottest destinations in Moscow, Russia during the early May holiday. Hundreds of people in Moscow lined up to buy tickets to the Japanese Garden to admire the cherry blossoms in full bloom in the mild sunny weather. Everyone wants to see and take pictures with the symbolic flower of the land of the rising sun. Admission to the garden for adults is about 90 thousand VND, halved for students. Children under seven years old are free to enter. The Japanese Garden is usually open to visitors from the end of April (when the cherry blossoms bloom) until the end of October. Many people can’t wait for their turn to buy tickets, choosing to watch cherry blossoms from the iron fence. For them, this does not cause discomfort. The Japanese Garden, built between 1983 and 1987, is located on the east side of the Main Botanical Garden campus (Russian Academy of Sciences). Dozens of cherry trees were shipped here from the island of Hokkaido. In addition, in the garden there are also many other representatives of the Japanese flora. During a visit to Russia in 2013, then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe planted the 51st cherry tree in the Japanese Garden. Seedlings are grown from the seeds of the tree first planted here by Mr. Shinzo Abe’s father, former Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, in 1986. In its more than thirty years of existence, the Japanese Garden has become one of the distinctive centers of oriental culture. It organizes many different exhibitions, classes on calligraphy, painting, tea ceremony culture… Every year, the Japanese Garden welcomes tens of thousands of visitors. In Moscow, there are many spots to watch the cherry blossoms bloom, but the Japanese Garden attracts a large number of Russians to visit, because it is an old site and has beautiful scenery. Cherries bloom only in Moscow for about two weeks. It is this that creates excitement and crowding at the entrance to Japanese gardens.