Over 220,000 people strolled through the busy streets of San Francisco’s Japantown as the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival commenced its 56th annual celebration. According to the festival’s official website, the festival began with a group of Japanese and Japanese American community leaders and businesses who organized and held the first cherry blossom festival in.
The San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade is the largest celebration of its kind in the world, organizers say, with thousands of fans who lined up along Market Street Saturday night to witness dancers, tigers and floats ring in the lunar new year.