In this post I’m sharing a few great summer activities to do in Japan. Many people visit Japan in the Spring and Fall.

Beneath the cherry blossoms of Hiroshima, memories of devastation linger — but so does hope. This exclusive extract from Six Minutes to Winter, Mark Lynas’s urgent new book on the threat of nuclear ...

We booked our recent trip to Japan a year in advance to see the cherry blossoms, which only bloom briefly in the spring.

Nakasendo Way has linked Kyoto and Tokyo for centuries—and now the forgotten route is being revived. A walking tour through ...

I am smitten with Tokyo's eclectic mix of modern cosmopolitanism and old world Japan,' confesses Dinesh Raheja.

"Every time there is a special occasion at home or we mark an entrance at school, we go to the cherry blossom for a photo under the tree ... the blue sky and the brightness of the pink," she ...

TOKYO -- In Japanese, “sakura” means cherry blossoms and “hanami” roughly ... mostly of people walking with their umbrellas along the tree-lined streets. By the fourth day, it was clear ...

The Japanese cherry trees (Prunus serrulata) that bloom in a cloud of pink in Tokyo and Washington ... “A Japanese cherry tree in the Chicago area is likely to be high-maintenance and short ...

On April 4, now-deleted videos of the streamer doing pull-ups on the branches of a cherry blossom tree, along with Kole from theTokyo Sims crew, surfaced online. In reaction, content creator Kaho ...

AE Housman’s poem, like the tree it celebrates, is much loved. Very few displays in nature’s extensive repertoire can match the impact of cherry blossom. There may still be a nip in the air ...

TOKYO-Tourists and Japanese locals marvelled at Tokyo’s cherry trees on March 31 at the peak of the annual blossom season that ... yoshino” variety of cherry tree in full bloom in Tokyo.