We’re now at the peak of hanami, flower-viewing season here in Tokyo. But this year apparently some people are trying to spread the idea of “air-hanami“, which essentially is flower viewing without ...

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Sakura is the Japanese word for cherry tree, and Hanami means watching. So Sakura Hanami literally means watching cherry blossoms. There are ninety-six varieties of Sakura trees in Japan. The day a ...

Flowering cherry trees of the species yamazakura and edohigan varieties distributed across the Japanese archipelago gave rise to the culture of hanami flower-viewing, a rite of spring. With the wide ...

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I was bitten by travel bug the moment I learned about the mesmerising Japanese Hanami. I got a chance to learn Japanese for work and with that, a new world was unveiled for me and it was there I ...

When thinking of Japan in spring, you'll no doubt picture the annual cherry blossom celebrations taking place around this time of year. That custom, known as Hanami, goes back thousands of years and ...

The season for viewing cherry blossoms is surprisingly long in Japan, beginning as early as January in Okinawa and other southern islands and lasting through May in northern Hokkaido. In each location ...