The stonework survives in terraces, and the cherry trees are on top of it. Tsuyama city gives several thousand cherry trees across the site of Tsuyama castle, now called Kakuzan Park. The keep itself is long gone, but the Bicchu turret has been rebuilt: the largest in the castle, and unusual in that its interior was laid with tatami in the manner of a residence rather than a fortification.

What this site has above everything else is walls.

They are stacked in tiers up the hill, which means the trees are not all standing at the same height as one another.

From the lowest level you look up and see blossom overhanging a stone edge above you. Climb a tier and the same trees are beside you while a different set is now below. Go higher again and you are looking down onto the tops of the ones you were under twenty minutes ago. The several thousand are not seen once but repeatedly, from changing elevations, which is a quite different kind of hanami from walking an avenue from one end to the other. The festival runs from the first to the fifteenth of April. The timing given on this page is not the city's; it comes from the weather record for Okayama.