The Cherry Blossom Festival is a citywide festival held annually in Washington, DC to celebrate the gift of 3,000 cherry blossom trees from Japan. The first cherry blossom festival was held in 1927, and expanded into a two-week event in 1994; now it is a four-weekend celebration. There are only approximately 100 of the original blossom trees still standing around the basin, but they’ve been supplemented with thousands more, so there are now approximately 4,000 trees pinking up the area.