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 KimonBerlin (CC BY-SA 2.0) · On-chan (CC BY-SA 3.0) — via Wikimedia Commons
Japan's oldest chrysanthemum festival, held since 1908. About 5,000 pots fill the grounds of Kasama Inari Shrine, one of Japan's three great Inari shrines, and some 10,000 across the town. Free in the shrine.