Japan is already booked solid for cherry blossom season, but those willing to try something new will find value in luxury ...

The blossoms, "sakura" in Japanese, last only for a few days ... the phenological data for full flowering date of cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) from many diaries and chronicles written by ...

Weather conditions mean the trees are looking spectacular two weeks earlier than usual Japanese cherry blossom trees at a Gloucestershire park have flowered two weeks earlier than usual ...

An Imperial Japanese Navy base was built in Kushira ... hoping to make a row of cherry blossom trees along the roads diverted from the base’s runway. A war memorial for the war dead had been ...

Each spring, Iwagi, an island in the Seto Inland Sea is painted pink with sakura cherry blossoms. It's home to some 4,000 cherry trees. Highlights include Mt. Sekizen, at the center of the island ...

There, around 500 mountain cherry blossom trees line a 1.5-kilometer slope leading to the gate of Shinpukuin temple of the Shingon Buddhism sect. An old traditional Japanese house with a ...

Plant a cherry tree. Prunus serrulata, the Japanese cherry tree known as sakura, covers Tokyo in pale pink snow every year ...

The oldest cherry tree is thought to be around 2,000 years old. The Yamataka Jindai Sakura is 10.3m tall and is a Natural Monument of Japan. 6. 'Sakura' is the Japanese word for 'cherry blossom ...