The city has counted them by variety. There are about thirteen hundred cherry trees along the Shukugawa, and Nishinomiya's breakdown runs: roughly a thousand Somei-yoshino, sixty yama-zakura, ninety oshima-zakura, and about ten further kinds including kanzan and fugenzo. The planting covers 2.8 kilometres and the green belt itself is 17.94 hectares.

Very few famous sites publish their figures at that resolution.

Counting to that level of detail usually means somebody is managing the stock rather than simply admiring it, and replacing individual trees as they fail.

The 2.8 kilometres run through a residential part of Nishinomiya, so the path carries commuters and dogs and shopping trolleys alongside the hanami, and none of that stops for the season or moves aside for it. Because nine in ten of the trees are the same clone, most of the avenue opens on the same day and finishes on the same day. The remaining tenth, the wild and double kinds, falls either side of that and stretches the edges of the season by several days at each end, which is the argument for planting a mixture in the first place. The timing given on this page is not the city's; it comes from the weather record for Kobe.