Cherry Blossom Festival

The Cherry Blossom Festival or Cherry Festival (according to the calender in ) is an event in the. This festival is celebrated in Japan and the United States. It is explicitly present from to  only, but trees continue to turn pink in later games. In games where the festival is celebrated, it lasts from April 5 until April 7.

In
In Animal Crossing, all regular trees (not counting ceder trees) will bloom pink between April 5 and April 7. The town's villagers will become excited about this sudden transformation, and the player may visit the mayor to learn about the festival and its meaning to the town. At the end of this explanation, Tortimer will give the player the Pink Tree Model.

In
The Cherry Blossom Festival is not present in Wild World; however, pink cherry blossom petals will appear on the town's deciduous trees on April 1, and will remain until the end of the Flower Fest on the second Monday of the month.

In and
In subsequent games, the festival is not specifically celebrated, but the town's deciduous trees' leaves will be replaced with pink cherry blossom petals in early April. In City Folk, this takes place from April 5 to April 7, while it takes place during the first ten days of April in New Leaf.

Additionally, in New Leaf, the Town Tree's leaves will turn pink, and pink petals will blow around the town.