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 Bariston (CC BY-SA 4.0) · F. D. Richards from Clinton, MI (CC BY-SA 2.0) — via Wikimedia Commons
More than 600 kinds of iris in a 1-hectare garden beside an Edo-period village headman's house, some 500,000 plants replanted by hand each year. There are also owls and other birds.