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 663highland (CC BY-SA 4.0) — via Wikimedia Commons
A water-plant garden on the shore of Lake Biwa in Kusatsu, with more than 100 kinds of lotus, including the ancient Oga lotus, and a water-lily pond flowering in many colours from June. Lotus close in the afternoon, so come in the morning; in lotus season the garden opens early.