The river and the hill run into each other. Along the embankment of the Asuwa there are about six hundred cherry trees over two and a bit kilometres, and immediately south of the water Asuwayama rises with another three thousand five hundred on it, which is what Fukui prefecture's tourism site records. Together that is over four thousand trees in one part of one city.

Asuwayama is only 116.4 metres high.

Being low, it can be walked up from the riverbank without any plan or equipment, which means the two plantings are one outing rather than two.

They are also two different shapes. The embankment trees are a line: you walk along them, and the blossom is a corridor with the river on one side. The hill trees are a mass: you climb into them, and the blossom is above and below and on both sides at once. Doing them in that order, line then mass, takes about an hour and changes what the word hanami is describing halfway through. In the terraced clearing near the top stands a statue of Emperor Keitai, credited with the founding of Fukui. From up there the line of trees along the river reads as a thin pale stripe through the middle of the city. The timing given on this page is not the prefecture's; it comes from the weather record for Fukui.