The forecast for the 2025 cherry blossom season, which will commence in mid-March and extend through mid-May, has been ...

These flowers are very similar and are produced in similar clusters along the slender stems and branches of peach trees. In ...

Plum trees that have just started to bloom are delighting visitors at an annual festival at the Kairakuen garden in Mito City ...

"This has happened in the past, but I don't remember seeing something of this scale," Hiroyuki Wada, a tree doctor at the Flower Association of Japan told local outlet NHK. Mr Wada said that the ...

In Nanakita Park in Sendai in northern Japan, the view of the flowers covering the surface is often likened to an ice skating rink. The nemophila there surround a cherry blossom tree planted to ...

and music – a tradition known as ‘hanami’, which literally translates as 'flower viewing'. 4. There are thought to be around 1 million cherry trees in Japan. The single cultivar known as ...

A cherry blossom festival held here as a harbinger of early spring in the Izu Peninsula is now under way, but ironically not ...

Discover the city-by-city cherry blossom prediction in Japan and plan your perfect spring getaway to witness the stunning ...

For the flower of Japan’s aristocracy, the Way of the Gods seemed suddenly to be a way of the godforsaken. In Tokyo’s dismal Sugamo Prison languished the Emperor’s lifelong friend ...