You’ll find local restaurants and shops with stalls set up along the river, and the sakura trees lit up with pretty pink lanterns from sunset to 8pm. This part of Nakameguro gets very crowded ...

I may be frowned upon for choosing an out-of-season topic here. I want to write about sakura, flowering cherry trees. Touemon Sano, the famed professional gardener known as the “sakura keeper of ...