One of the most famous cherry blossom spots in the Kansai region of western Japan, Osaka Castle Park is home to about 3,000 cherry trees. This year the trees were in full bloom on April 6 ...

An illusory "keep" of Fukuoka Castle, a designated national historic site, will again brighten the night skies amid blooming ...

OSAKA—Osaka’s cherry blossom season officially started on March ... blossoms had opened on a Somei-Yoshino cherry tree at Osaka Castle Park that has been used to gauge the start of the sakura ...

In mid-March, before the start of the cherry blossom season, a corner of the Flower Expo Memorial Park Tsurumi Ryokuchi in Osaka’s Tsurumi Ward was waiting for the arrival of cherry saplings.