30th Kobe Luminarie

Arima Onsen, known as a cherry blossom spot since the Edo period. The venue will be a hydrophilic square on the Arima River, which runs through the onsen town, and will feature stage events such as geiko crowd dances and music performances, as well as traditional performing arts sarumashi. There will also be a stall. You can also enjoy the night cherry blossom viewing at the lighting up of the cherry trees along the Arima River.

Beginning in the Edo period, there was an unusual custom in which people from the Kongo residence took their horses to visit the Tenjo-ji temple on the first day of February in the lunar calendar, prayed for the disaster of the mannage, decorated the flower kanzashi on the horse, and returned with Maya kelp as a souvenir. It is now held as a function that also serves as the "Mayasan Haruyama Hashi", where draped horses are invited from the Rokkosan Ranch to offer rape flowers and pray for disaster and safety. Image courtesy of Mayasan Tenjoji Temple

About 25 and 150 species of plums bloom one after another from the early-flowering double-flowered red crimson [yae kanko], the jade peony [gyokubo-tan] to the late-flowered bungo [bungo]. You can feel the early spring visit along with the Japanese lily and the rapeseed.