Plum Fall Festival 2025. The annual plum festival held here showcases close to 500 plum trees in 59 different varieties, and along with the early blooming. Jonangu shrine is famous for its weeping plum blossoms, and it's one of the places i visit every.
Mainly happening around sōga bessho bairin — a grove of about 35,000 plum trees — this famous festival. Every year during the second last week of february, mito’s kairakuen plays host to the mito plum festival.