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 HKRMSK (CC BY-SA 3.0) · lienyuan lee (CC BY 3.0) — via Wikimedia Commons
A tropical botanical garden in Okinawa City with about 1,300 kinds of plants, split into a water garden and a botanical area: baobabs, a palm avenue mirrored in the lake, and a pond of lotus that flowers in early summer. From late October to May the garden hosts an evening illumination.