Beautiful blooms and sweeping canopies make the Yoshino cherry tree, also known as the Prunus × yedoensis, the star of any ...

The firm released its forecasts for the flowering of the most popular variety Somei-yoshino cherry ... and Tokyo Sky Tree Station. The line passes by many areas with cherry trees, so the trains ...

Its Tokyo Regional Headquarters announced that day that officials observed 11 flowers of the Somei-Yoshino cherry at 2 p.m. that had opened on a tree under watch at Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda Ward.

After the blossoms ... I gazed up at a Somei-Yoshino cherry tree in my neighborhood, and realized that I had indeed paid next to no attention to it except when it was in bloom.

Cherry trees belong to the rose family of flowering plants ... cultivar known as 'Somei Yoshino' represents 80% of all of Japan's cherry trees 5. The oldest cherry tree is thought to be around ...