Hundreds of early-blooming cherry trees lining the Kawazugawa river in Shizuoka Prefecture have now reached their peak after a cold spell delayed their bloom.

The early-blooming trees are named after the Shizuoka city of Kakegawa, where 300 have been planted along the banks of the Sakagawa River that flows near the city's castle. The trees began to ...

Cherry blossom trees bloom in Japan Watch live as an early flowering variety of sakura trees bloom along the Kawazu River in ...

Newly discovered footage taken in Shizuoka Prefecture after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake constitutes what is probably among the oldest 35-millimeter records of tsunami damage in Japan.