The annual flowering of cherry trees is bringing joy — but some danger — to large crowds of tourists in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., in defiance of coronavirus concerns.
People traveled from all over to see the capitol’s blooms, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Baltimore schoolteacher Amanda Maurer, 24, said the trip to D.C. was a needed break.
“I wanted to see the blossoms, but I was also going crazy,” she told the Review-Journal. “I needed something to do.”
In 1912, the people of Japan gifted the United States two of the “exalted” Yoshino cherry trees, planted by the wife of Chinese ambassador with First Lady Helen Herron Taft, according to the National Parks Service.
In the ensuing century, the craze only, well, blossomed.
Each spring, the pink and white flowers bloom for just a few days in the Tidal Basin area of the US capital — drawing large crowds with events and watch-parties despite the canceling of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, which had been set for March 20 to April 12.
Washington, D.C., Closes Streets to Prevent Coronavirus Transmission City’s famed cherry blossoms draw too many people to allow for adequate social distancing, officials fear By Alexa Corse Updated March 22, 2020 2:10 pm ET
Washington, D.C., area officials urged the public Saturday to avoid the city’s famous cherry blossoms and are taking the unusual step of closing down public streets to keep visitors away and prevent possible coronavirus spread.
Streets will be closed starting at 7 a.m. Sunday surrounding major Washington, D.C., tourist sites in an effort to limit crowds amid the coronavirus concerns, the Metropolitan Police Department said late Saturday.
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