Kyoto’s cherry blossoms have been tracked for more than 1,200 years. That’s over a millennium of handwritten notes, royal diaries, and temple records describing when these trees flowered .

It is time to be in Japan. And now. On Monday (March 24), the Japan Meteorological Agency confirmed that the 2025 cherry blossom season has officially begun in Tokyo. Cherry blossoms, or sakura ...

This Mountain National Park Is Japan's Best Cherry Blossom Destination—With 30,000 Trees, Gorgeous Hiking Trails, and Ancient Shrines. Mount Yoshino offers a good (and beautiful) reason to get ...

According to Naoko Abe, cherry blossom expert and author of The Sakura Obsession, skilled sakura arborists have existed in Japan since time immemorial.But thanks to the popularity of the 1970s ...

Cherry blossom trees around the world bloom between late March and early May. Japan's cherry blossoms attract millions of tourists each year. Cherry blossoms can also be found in the US, the UK ...

Our Japanese guide, a woman in her 70s, was so excited by the amount of cherry blossoms we saw. “The sighting of our first cherry blossom at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was joyful.

But this isn't just any ordinary cherry blossom tree grove; it's also the domain of 97-year-old Tōemon Sano: Japan's most renowned sakuramori (cherry blossom guardian).