The sakura alley was officially opened in 2016. Sakura trees symbolise love, the fleeting beauty of youth, the arrival of a new family member and the coming of spring, as they are among the first trees to blossom each year. A Japanese legend tells that when the god Ninigi came down from high heaven to the islands of Japan, he was offered a choice between the two daughters of the god of the mountains. Ninigi chose the younger, named Blossom, and pushed the elder from a high cliff back to her father, because she was not as beautiful. The daughters' father was very angry at the god Ninigi's words and said that had he chosen the maiden Rock as his wife, he would have been forever strong, like the mountains and rocks. But he had chosen wrongly and so condemned all his descendants to be beautiful but to live very briefly – only as long as spring lasts…