The Shofuso House does hold the most variety, but those looking through rose-colored glasses can also check out the cherry tress on Kelly Drive (with Cherry trees from a 1933 planting located North of Boathouse Row past where Girard Ave. The maps help, but there are a few spots that are known as prime viewing locations for the blossoms beyond the greenery of Fairmount Park. He is also an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and his map will be available for pick-up at Shofuso and sold as a 14” x 21” poster in the gift shop.
Sakaguchi has had over 35 solo and group exhibitions, having shown at various venues locally and internationally, and is also a curator. Visitors can pick up a Philadelphia Cherry Blossom Ohanami map at Shofuso (or download it from ) or, check out the new hand-painted map from artist Hiro Sakaguchi.Īccording to a release, Sakaguchi was born in Nagano, Japan and moved to the United States in the 1990s to study art at the University of the Arts (BFA) and PAFA (MFA). To celebrate the start of the 2021 spring season, JASGP is conducting the Shofuso Cherry Blossom Viewing, which includes both socially-distanced activities and virtual programming throughout April of this year.įirst, Philadelphians can head out to see the blossoms in person, which is similar to the Ohanami tradition in Japan where families and friends gather under the blossoms to have flower-viewing picnics.
There are multiple restrooms on site.Because of the pandemic, this year will hold two different ways to experience the blooming season with events and happenings occurring both online and in person. Admission is free, and food and drink is pay-as-you-go via cash or card. To make sure there’s enough space to stay safely distanced, advance reservations are required, although walk-ups will be allowed if there’s seating available. You have to wear a mask to enter, but you can remove it to eat and drink once you’re sitting at a table, which will be spread among the pink-tinged trees and can have a maximum of six people. Also available to order from on-site food trucks are other snacks and cocktails, beers from Two Locals Brewing, Philly’s first Black-owned brewery, and options from FCM’s Mainstay Brewing, including Love Your Park Ale, which benefits Philly parks. There’s a cocktail called the Cherry Blossom Breeze, a cherry blossom custard dessert, and several Japanese-inspired dishes, like chilled soba noodles and soy-glazed chicken skewers. Ohanami is being infused into all parts of Parks on Tap’s inaugural 2021 installation, which will run from Saturday, April 3, to Sunday, April 25. The location is right next to Shofuso Japanese House and smack in the middle of West Fairmount Park’s main cherry blossom groves, the original trees for which were gifted to Philadelphia by Japan in 1926.
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