Hiroshima Flower Festival | |
Founded: | 1977 |
Website: | http://www.hiroshima-ff.com |
The is a flower festival held annually in Hiroshima, Japan.
The Hiroshima Flower Festival has been held every year since 1977 during Golden Week, from 3 May to 5 May.More than one million people take part in the festival each year.
The festival includes multiple stages for entertainment, shops, a small zoo, and other amusement attractions along Peace Boulevard and in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Many concerts, dancing shows, fashion shows, talk shows, and traditional and contemporary performances featuring local citizens and other events are held throughout the area. Locals also participate in a parade, and Yosakoi dance on Peace Boulevard.
The origin of the festival is the Japanese professional baseball Central League Champion parade for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp team in 1975. At the inaugural festival in 1977, Agnes Lum had to be escorted from the festival on a fire truck due to the number of fans overwhelming the event.[1]
The underlying themes of the festival are to:[2]
The key events of the festival are:[3]
Year | Flower singer | Other artists | |
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1977, 1978 | Naomi Sagara | ||
1979, 1980, 1985 | Yoko Seri | ||
1981 | Junko Sakurada | ||
1982 | Hitomi Ishikawa | ||
1983 | Ikue Sakakibara | ||
1984 | Hidemi Ishikawa | ||
1986 | Judy Ongg | ||
1987 | Miho Nakayama | ||
1988 | Yū Hayami | ||
1989 | Noriko Sakai | ||
1990 | Tomomi Nishimura | ||
1991 | Fuyumi Sakamoto | ||
1992 | Eriko Tamura | ||
1993 | Reiko Kato | ||
1994 | Oyunaa | ||
1995 | Marcia | ||
1996 | Ranran Suzuki | ||
1997 | Yoshie Hayasaka | ||
1998 | Kim Yeon-ja | ||
1999 | Hikaru Nishida | ||
2000 | Kumiko Endo | ||
2001 | Miki Sakai | ||
2002 | Wakako Shimazaki | ||
2003 | Hitomi Shimatani | ||
2004 | Sonim | ||
2005 | Sayaka Kamizono | ||
Year | FF special guests | Other guests | |
2006 | MAX, Koriki Choshu, Hinoi Team | ||
2007 | Masashi Akiyama, Takako Uehara, Younha | ||
2008 | Ai Kawashima, Kousuke Atari, TDR characters | ||
2009 | Jero, Kaori Mizumori, Yokota-Kaguradan | Aki-Gakudan, Osedo Chishima, Takashi & Chiharu, Sayaka Kamizono, Katsuhiko & Maco, Kentaro Kihara, Takahiro Miyazaki, CNA, DSC, Tomonari Takano, Takarabune, Chiharu Tamaki, trunk, Shoji Narita, Mebius, Kenta Morimoto, Anri Kumaki, The generous, Scandal, Miho Fukuhara, Lil'B |