My city is famous for cherry blossoms. There are about 1,000 cherry trees on bank named Gongendotutumi. Its long is 1 kilometer. Cherry trees are planted in both sides of the bank, and it is like a tunnel of flowers. At the same time, rape blossoms bloom, so yellow flowers make a beautiful contrast with pink cherry blossoms. During this period, both sides of the street are lined with 100 stalls, and millions of people come to here. Of course, you can enjoy in the daytime, but my recommend time is at night. Image that 1,000 cherry trees are lit up. It is marvelous view.
You may think that the best time to visit is spring, but you can visit any season, because Gongendoututumi is not only cherry blossoms. Many volunteers planted various kinds of flowers under the slogun of "The flower which blooms seasonally even after the season of the cherry tree is over". In early summer, about 100 kinds of hydrangeas come out. Surprisingly, there are 15,000 hydrangeas. In autum, million cluster amaryllis make big red carpet. It's really beautiful. You can enjoy flowers even winter. Its flower is Narcissus.
My city places grest stress on cherry blossoms, so flag of satte is based on cherry blossom.
The other thing you should see in my city is handprints. When Satte is written in kanji, it is "happy hand", so Satte has many famous people's handprints. Every year people who play active part in the year are elected by vote, and some of them donate their handprints. These monument are placed at city hall.
Satte once flourished as important area of the traffic, because Nikko highway and Nikko onari highway join at here. There used to be a castle, and the remains still be left. If you came to Satte, you should do town walking. Satte has many historic temples and shrines. Why don't you walk while you feel and study history? Here is a good town walking course.
Please enjoy my city, Satte!
Have you walked the course you introduced? Satte looks like a beautiful place to live. What are the red flowers in one of your photos? They are in bloom now in my neighbourhood. I guess they must be early autumn flowers.
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Hello, this is Nao Murakami. Have a lot of flowers in every seasons sounds really beautiful. I love flowers so I would like to visit Satte in alll four seasons. I've never heard of the city Satte, but it looks like nice place to visit!
ReplyDeleteHello,this is Yurina. I want to see cherry blossoms because I love it! I live in Saitama,too. So I think I can go your city easily. Which season's flowers do you like?
ReplyDeleteHello, this is Momoko Watanabe. Satte's shape is dog cleary and very cute! Name of city is nice and the idea of handprints is interesting. I would like to see cherry blossom lit up at night.
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