Watch live as tourists gather in Tokyo to see the Japanese capital's cherry blossoms before full bloom. The trees, also known ...

Cherry blossoms in central Tokyo are officially blooming, weather officials announced around 2 p.m. on March 24.

Toshio Tajima sat on the steps of the Shinto shrine in Minamisenju, a gritty neighborhood in east-central Tokyo, watching for his team of spirit-movers. It was a warm Friday in June, festival time ...

Japan’s official cherry blossom spotters on Monday confirmed the first blooms, declaring the start of the festive season in the Japanese capital.

Finally – the most anticipated season of the year has arrived! Following an unusually warm weekend in the capital, the Japan Meteorological Agency has officially announced that the 2025 cherry blossom ...

An official from the Japan Meteorological Agency carefully examined the specimen tree of Somei Yoshino variety at Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine and announced that more than five blossoms — the minimum ...

Tokyo's cherry blossom viewers saw the first blooms of Japan's favorite flower on Monday as officials declared the start of ...

Tokyo's Meiji Shrine enshrines Emperor Meiji, who ruled from 1868 until 1912 and oversaw Japan's modernization drive, and his wife, Empress Shoken. It is one of the country's prime destinations ...

In the fall of 2020, the town of Tsushima’s Watazumi Shrine was damaged by a typhoon that struck the area, destroying one of its torii gates that rises out of the bay waters adjacent to the shrine. In ...