Sakura is a flowering cherry tree in Japan, known for its beautiful pink blossoms. If you have been planning a trip to Japan, now might be the perfect time! The world-famous cherry blossom season ...

The oldest cherry blossom tree in Japan can be found at the Jissou Temple in Yamanashi Prefecture. Called the Jindai Zakura, this mighty sakura tree has a root circumference of 13.5 metres.

Nothing captures the imagination of a nation quite like ‘sakura’ season in Japan – and it delivers a once-in-a-lifetime travel experience ...

A huge cherry tree, thought to be 1,000 years old, is in full bloom in the western Japanese city of Maniwa, Okayama Prefecture. The Daigo-zakura cherry tree is 18 meters high and measures about 9 ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto To many across the islands of Japan, small tree frogs, or amagaeru, are a regular sight in gardens and parks around the country. Japanese tree frogs are found not only in ...

KAGOSHIMA--A dwarf shrub species of the nettle family, believed extinct in Japan for about a century, was recently found to be thriving in the wild on Amami-Oshima island, part of southern Japan's ...

you’ve earned yourself double points. The official largest camphor tree in Japan is at Kamou Hachiman shrine in Kamou-cho, Kagoshima Prefecture. It boasts an enormous 33.57-meter root ...

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Twitch streamer Matthew "Mizkif" is currently in Japan, where he streams and records ... doing pull-ups on the branches of a cherry blossom tree, along with Kole from theTokyo Sims crew, surfaced ...