Many visitors enjoyed the final day of a cherry blossom festival featuring an early-blooming variety, Kawazu-zakura, in a ...

If you want to see cherry blossoms early in the season, visit the Matsuda Cherry Blossom Festival. The festival is held in ...

Organizers expect 800,000 visitors during the Feb. 1-28 event, up from about 620,000 last year. Aeound 850 trees of the early-blooming Kawazu-zakura variety form a four-kilometer tunnel of pink ...

The cherry blossoms in Kawazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, typically reach peak bloom in February. Getting there from Tokyo takes about three hours by car, and the surrounding roads are often congested ...

If you want to see cherry blossoms early in the season, visit the Matsuda Cherry Blossom Festival. The festival is held in ...