The bright pink tsunami of blossoming sakura trees begins in the south of Japan ... The Yamanashi prefecture (where the world's oldest hotel with a serene mountain hot spring is located) welcomes ...

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 ...

That’s because there are more than 30,000 sakura trees on the slopes of Mount Yoshino, making for one of the largest concentrations of cherry blossoms to be found anywhere in the country when they ...