Each spring during sakura (cherry ... tree grove; it's also the domain of 97-year-old Tōemon Sano: Japan's most renowned sakuramori (cherry blossom guardian). For more than a millennium, Japanese ...

HIROSAKI, Aomori -- Somei Yoshino cherry trees ... 28. (Japanese original by Ayano Tanaka, Tokyo City News Department) In Photos: Crowds gather to see cherry blossoms at iconic park in Japan's ...

Yukari meets friends from the Japan Society NI under the cherry blossom trees to have a party, picnic and to perform a traditional Japanese folk dance. "I started a dance group 15 years ago," she ...

A Taiwanese tourist faced intense online backlash after vigorously shaking cherry blossom trees in Japan to create a romantic “cherry blossom rain” for photos. The unidentified woman was ...

But cherry blossoms? Utterly disastrous. In 2023, she postponed a trip to Japan, waiting for the perfect bloom. A year later, she left LA and travelled 8,000km to catch the blossoms, only to miss them ...