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I just started reading 上級へのとびら, an intermediate book with a lot of reading
sections. Throughout my reading there have been a couple cases where I can't
understand the usage of が in my sentences.

> 日本人が大好きな桜の花がいつ頃咲くかは、場所によって違います。

This sentence seems like it would work better with の, but from what I have
been told it has to do with the adjective 大好き. What confuses me is that I have
always thought that verbs finish a clause, but in this case 日本人が大好きな桜の花 seems
to be the subject for this sentence. Why is this?

> 温泉には観光やレジャーが目的で行く人が多く、温泉では大きいお風呂に入ったり、おいしい料理を食べたり、浴衣を着たりしてリラックスします。

The part I don't understand here is 観光やレジャーが目的. 観光やレジャー isn't the subject I
don't think, so I honestly don't know why its being used with が.

Any help is appreciated!
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grammar particle-が relative-clauses
が frequentally being used in ways I cant understand
日本人が大好きな桜の花 is the subject of the verb 咲く, and the subject of the verb 違います is
日本人が大好きな桜の花がいつ頃咲くか. The whole structure of this sentence is like
this.[![structure of the first
sentence](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xbwvt.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xbwvt.png)

In 観光やレジャーが目的, 観光やレジャー is the subject of 目的で（目的だ） and not 行く. It says 観光やレジャー
is the purpose of 行く. [![structure of the second
purpose](https://i.stack.imgur.com/whvmx.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/whvmx.png)
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