[2024 Update] Produced by SUNNY SIDE UP GROUP! 5 Cherry Blossom Events Perfect for a Spring Outing

It is already March, and cherry blossom season will be here soon. Have you decided on your plans for a spring outing?

This year again, events where you can enjoy cherry blossoms and the feeling of spring are being held in various locations. This time, we introduce five events perfect for a spring outing, for which SUNNY SIDE UP GROUP is handling PR communications.

With so many appealing events, you may have trouble deciding which one to attend…! Please be sure to read through to the end.

Shibuya Sakura Stage

At the new next-generation landmark “Shibuya Sakura Stage,” which was just completed in November 2023, the town event “Shibuya Sakura Stage Shibuya Sakura Festival” is now being held, with the entire facility working in unison.

A variety of programs will be offered, including an exhibition of works by media artist Yoichi Ochiai, AR experiential content, and photo spots where you can take “oshi-katsu” photos.

With the opening of Shibuya Sakura Stage transforming the city of Shibuya, this event’s concept is diversity—reflecting the desire for visitors to enjoy both the evolving cityscape and the cherry blossoms. Please enjoy this festival where diversity comes into full bloom.

teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM

For an outing destination for art lovers, how about “teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM”?

teamLab Planets is a “museum where you enter the water, and a garden where you become one with the flowers,” consisting of four massive artwork spaces and two gardens created by the art collective teamLab. For a limited time through April 30, cherry blossoms will be in full bloom throughout this art space.

The space filled with swirling cherry blossoms, “Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers,” and the work where you walk barefoot through water, “Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi Fish with People,” where the swimming koi transform into cherry blossoms and scatter, are truly fantastical. You can experience art that fuses cherry blossoms with digital expression—something you will not see elsewhere.

teamLab is such a popular spot that it ranked in the top five of “the most popular museums in the world” (*1). Please take this opportunity to visit.

*1: “These Were the Most Popular Museums in the World, According to Googleʼs ʻYear in Searchʼ” artnet.
December 20, 2023.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/google-trends-top-museums-teamlab-ark-encounter-2411845

bills “Hanami at bills”

At the all-day dining restaurant “bills,” originating from Sydney, Australia, we are holding “Hanami at bills” again this year after last year’s great success.

Hanami at bills is an event where you can enjoy cherry blossom viewing at bills while admiring the cherry blossoms blooming inside the restaurant, accompanied by cherry blossom-themed drinks. Through March 31, the restaurant will be adorned with cherry blossoms at their best for the season.

In addition, special drinks designed to let you enjoy the subtle elegance of cherry blossoms will be available during the event period. You can enjoy two options: the “Cherry Blossom Soda,” a sweet-and-tart, refreshing drink made by adding soda and lemon juice to a house-made syrup using cherry, plum, and thyme, and the original cocktail “Cherry Blossom Gin,” made by adding bills’ house gin “The Botanist” and “bills house Japanese sake” produced by Sumikawa Shuzojo to a house-made syrup.

Why not enjoy cherry blossom viewing at bills with these special drinks?

Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo “Night Sakura Sea of Clouds Sakura Evening High Tea”

For those who would like to enjoy both cherry blossoms and dining, we recommend Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo’s “Night Sakura Sea of Clouds Sakura Evening High Tea.”

In the garden where you can see “Tokyo Sea of Clouds,” created by generating fine water droplets evenly to produce a sea-of-clouds effect, you can fully appreciate the beauty of illuminated cherry blossoms. In addition, the popular “Sakura Path” from last year will also be open to the public. After sunset, a projector casts an image along the path from the waterwheel to the sacred tree, making it look as though a carpet of cherry blossom petals has spread across the walkway.

And at the evening high tea, you will find a full lineup of spring-inspired menu items, including smoked chicken with cherry wood chips, savory bites made with vibrant spring ingredients, and a sakura Mont Blanc topped with cherry blossom cream.

You can enjoy cherry blossoms with all five senses, making it certain to become an unforgettable spring memory.

Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse “FLOWER GARDEN 2024”

When you think of spring, it is not only cherry blossoms—other flowers are also at their best. At the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, the event “FLOWER GARDEN 2024,” where you can feel the arrival of spring through colorful blooms, is now being held. A popular event known as a “spring tradition in Yokohama” that drew approximately 250,000 visitors last year, this year’s theme is “immersive” (= a sense of immersion).

Based on an original story about a girl who wanders into a mysterious forest and enjoys a party with animals, you can have an immersive experience—such as discovering monuments that follow the story within the flower fields and taking photos in the mysterious forest as if you were the protagonist.

There will also be kitchen trucks selling spring-inspired food and drinks, a market where you can enjoy shopping, and fantastical illuminations. With plenty of hands-on content, you can enjoy the event to the fullest.

Have you found an event that interests you? All five limited-time cherry blossom viewing events introduced here have their PR handled by SUNNY SIDE UP GROUP.

Please enjoy cherry blossom viewing events and make the most of spring.