Cherry blossom is three weeks of it. Flip through the other forty-nine — and watch what's in bloom move up and down the country.
The calendar is the way in. Underneath it sits the ordinary thing — search, filter by month or flower, and open any of the 412 spots.




Photos Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan (CC BY 2.0) · MAKIKO OMOKAWA (CC BY-SA 3.0) — via Wikimedia Commons
About 2,600 cherry trees of some 50 kinds around Hirosaki Castle. The Hirosaki Cherry Blossom Festival runs from mid April to early May with evening light-ups, and as the petals fall they cover the outer moat in a pink carpet, the hanaikada.