The annual cherry blossom festival will be held in the Yonomori district, a famous spot for cherry blossoms in Tomioka Town, Fukushima Prefecture. evacuation orders were temporarily issued for the entire area due to the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Last April, the evacuation order for the Yonomicori area was lifted, and the main venue for the town's symbolic cherry bl Blossom festival this year was moved to the same location as before the nuclear accident. "It's encouraging. I felt that the town was moving forward strongly toward recovery," says a woman in her 60s.