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Where to see cherry blossoms in Paris?

2023-04-21T12:41:03.165Z


INFOGRAPHY - As in Japan, Parisians can also walk under the cherry blossoms. It's time, thanks to our maps, to explore the streets of the capital in search of a little air of Japan.


There is still time to admire the cherry blossoms.

No need to fly to Japan.

For Parisians, a little walk supplemented if necessary by a few metro stations or a few turns of the wheel of a bicycle is enough to experience a little Japanese vertigo.

The capital indeed offers places of quasi-expatriation where one can contemplate the blossoms of the cherry trees, a bit like on the other side of the world, where the months of March and April mark the beginning of the "hanami", a tradition consisting to marvel at the new blossoms of the "sakura" (cherry trees) and to celebrate the arrival of spring by organizing picnics with family or friends.

There, the greatest attention is paid to the progression of the flowering front, a gentle wave of vegetation that starts from Okinawa in the south and goes up to

in Hokkaido within a month.

The archipelago then plunges under a blanket as delicate as it is ephemeral, conducive to poetry and the consumption of sake.

Each species of Sakura flower is said to have its own shade of pink, from very red pink to very pale white.

The Paris map above is sprinkled with multiple colored dots.

Their locations indicate the cherry trees planted in the capital, as well as their areas of concentration.

Places for walks, the parks offer beautiful specimens.

In the Jardin des Plantes, the Prunus Group Sato-zakura “Shirotae” lets you admire its spreading habit like a fan with horizontal and arched branches.

In the Tuileries Gardens, at the foot of Notre-Dame Square Jean-XXIII, on the Champ de Mars, in the courtyard of the Petit Palais, at Père-Lachaise, at Square Marie-Trintignant in the Marais… flowers in delicate colors are unearthed to who knows how to dawdle.

To be sure, you can go directly to the Martin-Luther-King park in the Batignolles district, the development of which was completed in 2020. More than 200 cherry trees have been planted there,

drawing a floral tunnel above the aisles.

The "instagramers" know... Still north of the capital, more than a hundred erect their crowns at the Jules Ladoumègue sports center, refreshing the edge of the ring road.

On the other side, 5 kilometers to the south, the Parc de Sceaux concentrates one of the most beautiful blooms in Île-de-France.

In the northern grove, the 144 Japanese cherry trees are covered with double flowers in a real wonderland.

Other spaces are a little less well provided, there are about fifty in the André Citroën park in the 15th arrondissement, as well as in the Suzanne Lenglen park bordering Issy-les-Moulineaux.

You can also opt for a random stroll through the streets, favoring the districts with the highest density of cherry trees.

Then opt for the 13th and 15th, then the 17th and 19th.

Avoid the center of Paris.

There would be only six isolated specimens in the 1st and less than ten in the 2nd and 3rd.

If ever the trees that will sweep your path had already lost their flowers, with a little patience, another much easier quest will open up which will begin in September, that of momijigari (the hunt for red leaves) which consists of observing the change fall leaf color...

Source: lefigaro

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