9 Blossom Colored Kokawadera Temple Masayoshi Hirose Wakayama's pride, spacious 115,850㎡ Kokawadera Temple was radiant with cherry blossom color.
Activities Achi Village Peach Blossom Festival 2025 Kim From mid-April to mid-May, Nagano's Achi Village comes alive with the color of around 10,000 peach trees in bloom, filling th...
17 Activities Plum Blossom Trail in Takao Cathy Cawood In early spring we enjoyed a hike along a well known plum blossom trail in Takao on the edge of Tokyo. We began at Takao Stat...
Activities Cherry Season in Yamagata Bridget Ye Yamagata is famous for its juicy, sweet, and glossy cherries, and the prefecture is responsible for approximately 70% of Japa...
Activities A Solitary Cherry Tree Reynald Ventura This is a 2-minute 53-second film about a solitary cherry tree in full bloom. Children climb up and down the tree.
2 Culture Japanese Plum Blossom & Plum Liquor Richard Jones The Japanese plum, both the blossom and the fruit.
Culture Mt Hodo Plum Blossom Festival 2025 Lynda Hogan Information for the annual plum blossom festival held at the top of Mt Hodo, Nagatoro, Saitama Prefecture.
Activities Double Blossom in 40 Minutes Brandon Virgo Hanamiyama and Ogawara, in Fukushima and Miyagi respectively, are two locations with beautiful cherry blossoms. They are just...
Culture Karasu, the Divine Messenger Elena Lisina The crow, or karasu, was considered a divine messenger of the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu. Called Yatagarasu, its three legs repre...
