The Sakura Matsuri – Japanese Street Festival is the largest one-day celebration of Japanese culture in the United States and is proud to be the grand finale of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Performers and vendors travel from all over the country and the world to Washington, DC to share their love of Japanese culture and traditions with the Festival attendees. The Sakura Matsuri – Japanese Street Festival is excited to return to Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd and 7th Streets, NW – anchored at the corner of 7th and Pennsylvania, Ave, NW.
There are many great areas at the festival:
Arts & Culture - booths showcasing
Japanese culture, crafts, and
customs
Ginza Market - vendors showcasing unique and interesting Japanese products
Japan Now - booths showcasing modern technology and culture.
Taste of Japan - food vendors as well as Japanese sake and beer tasting
Culinary Arts Pavilion - presentations to show that Japanese food is not as
complicated as many people
believe and to teach how to
substitute Japanese
ingredients for American
ones.
Sakura Matsuri Stages - Sakura Matsuri's 5 stages
show traditional
performances, J-POP and
J-ROCK artists, community
performance groups, and
martial arts.
Japan Rail Modelers has been very honored to be apart of the Sakura Matsuri for the last decade. We have tens of thousands of the public come by the layout each year. Its a wonderful outreach for us to a very wide spectrum of the public. Displaying the layout next to JR East and JR Central is also a wonderful experience and has lead to our attending other events with JR East. Come and join us for this great event!
The Sakura Matsuri is organized by the Japan-America Society of Washington DC, which is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan educational and cultural organization for individuals
and corporations with an interest in Japan and US-Japan
relations.
