Some of these Tokyo attractions are even celebrating the occasion with dedicated plum blossom festivals filled with street food stalls and Japanese cultural performances. RECOMMENDED: Winter ...

Plum trees that have just started to bloom are delighting visitors at an annual festival at the Kairakuen garden in Mito City ...

Ahead of cherry blossom season, the ume or plum blossoms brighten up the colder months in Japan. This guide introduces the different varieties. This type of ume is close to the original species ...

Meihua cheng - or Plum Blossom City - has seen repeated Japanese invasions and extreme weather, including typhoons, for more than 500 years but it is still holding strong. In one strike in May ...

While cherry blossoms are often seen as the quintessential Japanese flower, the plum blossom once signaled the arrival of spring. Introduced from China around 1,500 years ago, plums were already ...

The plum blossoms might get less hype than the cherry ... The annual festival is one of Tokyo's most popular late-winter events, and it takes place for a month from February 8 until March 8.

The main square of Matsuyama Castle features five plum trees planted so visitors can enjoy the view of the castle and the blossoms together. The red plum trees are still in the bud, but their white ...

Cherry blossoms started blooming in central Tokyo on March 14, tying the earliest record set in 2020 and 2021, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Its Tokyo Regional Headquarters ...

Scholar of East Asian Literatures Wiebke Denecke explains that classical Japanese poets wrote poetry about plum blossoms when they were in season. Their compositions shaped Japanese court poetry ...