The foliage (in English also called: leaf peeping) is an informal term, used in the United States, to indicate the activity in which people travel to see and photograph autumn foliage, particularly in the New England northern and in the Midwestern United States. An organized excursion to see the autumn colors is called foliage tour. A similar custom in Japan is called momijigari (紅葉 狩).
Tourism
Although some variation in leaf color occurs everywhere in the fall, the brightest colored foliage is found in the Northern Hemisphere, specifically:
- in most of the Canada southern continental
- in some areas of the United States northerners
- in northwestern Europe north of Alps
- in the Russian region of Caucasus near the Black Sea
- in East Asia (including much of the China north and east, as well as Korea and Japan).
In the southern hemisphere, colorful autumn leaves can be observed in:
- Argentina southern and central
- the southern and south-eastern regions of Brazil
- Australia south-eastern (including the Tasmania) and much of the New Zeland (especially South Island).
The phenomenon is appreciated by the companies that benefit from the millions of tourists who flock to the affected regions United States and Japan (city of Nikkō is Kyoto).