The temple of Choken-ji is famous as the first in Kyoto to witness the blooming of cherry blossom each year. Its weeping ito-zakura (thread cherry blossom) tree comes into flower a week earlier ...

KYOTO--Under the autumn foliage ... A small five-ring pagoda stands at the center, and Japanese cedar and maple trees are used instead of grave markers. One plot is 25 centimeters square.

which is home to more than 1,000 varieties of sakura, would start blooming around March 29, while Yoshino's over 30,000 trees began April 5. Other popular tourist cities, like Kyoto, normally ...

I want to write about sakura, flowering cherry trees. Touemon Sano, the famed professional gardener known as the “sakura keeper of Kyoto,” suggests in his book that if you love cherry trees ...