The Japan Meteorological Corporation makes its predictions based on somei-yoshino cherry trees at some 1,000 viewing spots around the country. You can see updates for different places at the ...
Students of elementary and junior high schools in the area later installed Yoshino cherry trees on both sides of the 2.2-kilometer road. Those trees now number 420. Before the 2011 disaster ...
As if they'd been waiting for the holiday-studded Golden Week to start, the "somei-yoshino" cherry trees at Goryokaku Park in Hakodate, Hokkaido, are now in full bloom. Blossoms were confirmed on ...
A fond farewell for a treasured tree. Few trees become internet darlings. Yet Stumpy, a Yoshino cherry on the edge of the capital’s Tidal Basin, was no common ornamental. The tree never would have won ...
4. There are thought to be around 1 million cherry trees in Japan. The single cultivar known as 'Somei Yoshino' represents 80% of all of Japan's cherry trees 5. The oldest cherry tree is thought ...