Beautiful blooms and sweeping canopies make the Yoshino cherry tree, also known as the Prunus × yedoensis, the star of any ...

Spring in DC is all about one thing: cherry blossoms. The district’s iconic trees were first planted back in 1912 when the Mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki, gifted 3,000 Yoshino Cherry Trees to the city.

KOCHI--The city’s Somei-Yoshino cherry trees are now officially in bloom, putting Kochi ahead of the rest of the country in announcing the start of the cherry blossom season. The Kochi Local ...

The area is a popular place for night-time cherry blossom viewing. Food and drink stalls have opened this year for the first time since the pandemic. 4,000 Somei-yoshino trees in full bloom in ...

Students of elementary and junior high schools in the area later installed Yoshino cherry trees on both sides of the 2.2-kilometer road. Those trees now number 420. Before the 2011 disaster ...

4. There are thought to be around 1 million cherry trees in Japan. The single cultivar known as 'Somei Yoshino' represents 80% of all of Japan's cherry trees 5. The oldest cherry tree is thought ...

But cherry trees are still in the bud phase along Tokyo's Sumida River. A Tobu Railway official says he really wishes there were at least a few blossoms. File photo shows Tobu Railway's "Sakura ...

Every March, Washington, D.C. goes on cherry blossom watch, with all eyes on the Yoshino cherry trees at the Tidal Basin. These perfectly pink blooms signal the unofficial start of spring.