In Oku-Chichibu, a local station just about an hour and a half away from central Tokyo, you can visit a temple where they keep a 600 years old cherry tree. At this time of the year, from late March to early April, many local Japanese would go and visit this temple to witness a natural treasure.
This tree is 15 metres height and the trunk is 3 metres in width. It stands strong in all weather for the past 600 years - a really amazing view. Today, hundreds of Japanese went to visit and take picture of the cherry blossoms of this tree - a beautiful sight indeed.
At night there will be light ups around the tree so that people can enjoy a different sight of this "shidare" sakura.
