Mount Yoshino offers a good (and beautiful) reason to get out of Tokyo and Kyoto and venture off the beaten path.
Japan 's official cherry blossom spotters on Monday confirmed the first blooming of the country's favorite flower, declaring ...
Cherry blossoms ... Yoshino cherry trees, known for their white-and-pink flowers, commonly bloom in late March or early April. In 1912, the U.S. received about 3,000 cherry trees from Japan ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan 's official cherry blossom spotters ... the specimen tree of Somei Yoshino variety at Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine and announced that more than five blossoms — the minimum ...
Mount Yoshino in Yoshino-Kumano National Park is considered one of the best places to view cherry blossoms in Japan. There are more than 30,000 cherry blossom trees in the area, and some are ...