2025: 12th Annual Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival Event, Buffalo’s Japanese Garden in Delaware Park (Food, Performers, Tea Ceremony, Activities..)NEW

Celebrate springtime at the 12th Annual Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival on April 26 and 27, 2025. Enjoy cultural displays, Japanese tea ceremonies, food trucks, pink boat rides on Mirror Lake, live music across three stages, and a vibrant marketplace of vendors and nonprofits. Activities will be held inside the Buffalo History Museum and outside in the beautiful Japanese Garden.

Date

Date
April 26 - 27, 2025

Time
11 am to 3 pm


Saturday Events 2025

Details
• Cultural displays and activities inside the Buffalo History Museum
• Activity tables featuring bonsai, origami, Japanese language, folk dolls, and Kanazawa sister city information
• Live music across three stages by Music is Art
• Pink boat rides on Mirror Lake
• Food Trucks: Cheesy Chicks, Fat Bob’s Food Trucks, Money Bags Dumplings, Pawlowski’s Pierogi, Sun Cuisine, Tiny Thai, Udder Brothers ice cream bike, World of Desserts
• Vendors: Blossom Designs New York, Blue Rochelle, Buffalo Ro-O-Zan Enkyoji Nichiren Buddhist Temple, Buffalo Roots, Clay By Jaclyn, Elikathal, Greenhouse Glass Studio, Hazel Grove Studio, Katharynmarie/KatyDidArt, Kirsten’s Creations, Martinsville Soapworks, Sapir Design, Stitch Buffalo, Teddymuffs Designs, The Delightful Octopus, WillasWoolies
• Nonprofits: Buffalo Toy Library, FeedMore WNY, Japan Culture Center, Spectrum Health and Human Services Buffalo HOPE COMHPS and MAT Team, The Tool Library, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge
• Volunteers and visitors in the garden including McKinley High School Horticulture Students, Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters, Taoist Tai Chi Group weather permitting

Special Saturday Afternoon Event
Pop-Up Tea Ceremony on the Portico
Date April 26, 2025
Time 3:30 pm
Location Portico of Buffalo History Museum or inside Auditorium in case of rain

Sunday Events 2025

Details
• Cultural displays and activities inside the Buffalo History Museum
• Activity tables featuring bonsai, origami, Japanese language, folk dolls, and Kanazawa sister city information
• Live music across three stages by Music is Art
• Performance by JGB Shibuki, Buffalo’s Taiko Group
• Pink boat rides on Mirror Lake
• Food Trucks: Cheesy Chicks, Fat Bob’s Food Trucks, Money Bags Dumplings, Pawlowski’s Pierogi, Sun Cuisine, Tiny Thai, Udder Brothers ice cream bike, World of Desserts
• Vendors: Blossom Designs New York, Blue Rochelle, Buffalo Ro-O-Zan Enkyoji Nichiren Buddhist Temple, Buffalo Roots, Clay By Jaclyn, Elikathal, Greenhouse Glass Studio, Hazel Grove Studio, JGB Shibuki Taiko Group, Katharynmarie/KatyDidArt, Kirsten’s Creations, Martinsville Soapworks, Sapir Design, Stitch Buffalo, Teddymuffs Designs, The Delightful Octopus, WillasWoolies
• Nonprofits: Buffalo Toy Library, Canisius University Anime Club, FeedMore WNY, Japan Culture Center, Spectrum Health and Human Services Buffalo HOPE COMHPS and MAT Team, The Tool Library, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, Buffalo Orienteering
• Volunteers and visitors in the garden including McKinley High School Horticulture Students, Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters, Taoist Tai Chi Group weather permitting

Pink Parade
Date April 27, 2025
Time 3 pm

Details
Join the Cherry Blossom Princess, musicians, and merrymakers for the Annual Pink Parade through the garden. Remember to wear pink.

Pop-Up Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony
Date To Be Determined
Details
An outdoor traditional tea ceremony will take place during the festival weekend. The day and time will be announced based on the weather forecast on April 21.

Location
The Buffalo History Museum (TBHM) 1 Museum Court, off Elmwood Avenue