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Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival in Seattle
The Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival celebrates Japanese arts, food and traditions each spring at Seattle Center, timed to coincide with the seasonal bloom of the campus's cherry trees. The festival features taiko drumming, bonsai displays, tea ceremonies, martial arts demonstrations, ikebana flower arranging and Japanese food vendors across a multi-day program.
Each spring, as the cherry trees planted across the Seattle Center campus begin to bloom, the grounds built for the 1962 World's Fair host the Seattle Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival, a multi-day celebration of Japanese arts and traditions timed deliberately to the seasonal flowering rather than a fixed calendar date.