It's called 夜桜 viewing.
夜桜 literally means night (夜) cherry flowers (桜).
Here are the real 夜桜 photos. ;)
Sorry they are not good ones.
It's very difficult to take nice photos of 夜桜!
Anyway, we Japanese love going to see cherry flowers at night. And many of us bring food and drinks to enjoy them under the cherry trees. So if you visit parks famous for 桜 during the cherry season, you may see some people go crazy drinking too much beer.
But seeing real cherry flowers is not only way to enjoy 桜. I take a tea ceremony lesson every week, and my teacher prepares special sweets for us. Those sweets express flowers or sceneries of the season. This week, they were cherry flowers!
Aren't they beautiful!? Every time when I open a sweet case, I get excited!! It's one of the best moments during the tea ceremony... (whoops, my mistake! The best moment must be when I start eating.)
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