Mount Yoshino offers a good (and beautiful) reason to get out of Tokyo and Kyoto and venture off the beaten path.

The Weeping Japanese Cherry, sometimes called the Higan Cherry, is interspersed between the Yoshino, Akebono, and Kwanzan cherry trees. The flowers of the Weeping Cherry vary, blossoming as single ...

Cherry blossom season is one of Portland’s best transition points. When those little pink and white buds start popping out ...

by Ida Domingo TOPICS: WASHINGTON (7News) — Winter is fading ... D.C. is now officially on cherry blossom watch! The final stage signals peak bloom, when 70% of the Yoshino cherry trees around ...

The peak bloom date is "defined as the period when 70% of the Yoshino Cherry blossoms are open," according to the park service. About 3,800 cherry trees grow around the Tidal Basin and National Mall.

In this garden, you can find different species of cherry blossom trees, especially Yoshino, Sargent, and weeping Higan varieties. Park opens at 7 a.m. and closes at 8 p.m. through March 31 ...

Mt Yoshino in Nara prefecture is known not only ... Visit the well-preserved samurai village of Kakunodate, famous for its weeping cherry trees. Alternatively, the Hinokinai riverbank, a ...