Baikasai — plum blossom festival takes place every year on February 25 at Kyoto’s Kitano Tenmangu shrine. Kitano Tenmangu boasts of more than two thousand plum trees.
Maiko and geisha in beautiful Japanese traditional clothes serve ceremonial matcha and Japanese sweets okashi to the general public. The taste of delicious Japanese tea combined with the chance to see gracious movements of geisha and maiko is a rare opportunity to fill your heart with joy in anticipation of spring that is already on the way to your door.
