Spring flowers like cherry blossoms, tulips and rape blossoms recently reached full bloom in Asahi, Toyama Prefecture, allowing visitors to enjoy a landscape of vivid colors spread all over. Local people call this scenery "Spring Quartet" because the Northern Alps shining white behind add a fourth color. Last year, about 30,000 tourists from Japan and abroad visited the town, which has a population of only about 12,000. This spring, the last in the Heisei era, the blooming period is longer than last year, attracting more people. At the end of the season, tulip petals are picked and spread around the base of the cherry tree to fertilize it. The soil, where nutrients are obtained from "recycled" flowers, is expected to produce beautiful cherry blossoms again next spring, for the first time in the Reiwa era.
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