Sakura forecast 2019

Recently announced latest forecast for this year’s cherry blossoms says it will start to bloom on around March 23 (see below map) and will be full bloom the end of March. So exciting! Some of our tours are becoming booked out. So if you are considering to join our tour, please fix your schedule, the …

Cherry Blossoms forecast 2017

It looks Tokyo is the place we can see the cherry blossoms the earliest time in this spring. There are many company who provide on-line cherry blossoms forecasts and they say cherry blossoms will start to bloom earlier than usual in Kanto (including Tokyo) and northern Japan, but it will come later than normal year …

Sakura forecast 2016

It’s still pretty cold here in Tokyo, but we can find some signs of early spring here and there in the city. And, yes, we need to talk about this topic – when the cherry blossoms open flowers? According to the forecast companies it is likely they will start to bloom on March 27 and …

Cherry blossoms forecast 2015 – Vol. 1

Japanese weather forecast company, Weather Map announced today that they forecast the cherry blossoms may start to bloom in March 24 in Tokyo. Maybe it is too hasty to react nervously to this kind of announcement. Tomorrow’s weather forecast says it will SNOW in Tokyo !(@_@;). But anyway we are such looking forward to cherry …

Cherry Blossoms Forecast 2014

       As we post a blog entry at this time of the every year, it is already the season people start to forecast when is the DAY in 2014. As cherry blossoms are very short-lived, we should not miss the chance! And also we need to well plan in advance for our Hanami …

Cherry Blossoms Forecast 2013

It is still very cold and snowing a lot in mountain areas in Japan, so it may be a bit too early to think about cherry blossoms, but actually the spring is just around the corner! As it happens every year, a few companies have already predicted and announced for this season when cherry flower …

Cherry Blossom Forecast 2012

As we wrote on our blog last year, early March is the time we start to predict on which date the first cherry blossom blooms and we feel very nervous but at the same time we very much look forward to it. Here are the “Kaika Yoso (Cherry blossom forecast) 2012” announced by a few …

Let’s lift our faces a little bit!

Thank you, cherry blossoms! You make people’s face up and make them smile.

It’s that time of year again…

I can’t help admiring cherry blossoms as they will be blown about very easily. Please, cherry blossoms, this year please stay there even a little more than usual year…!

Cherry blossoms are finally ending at Tokyo…

Today, I went to Hamamatsu to see my old friend. I also visited Hamamatsu castle, which has some connection with Ieyasu Tokugawa, the first Shogun in Edo period. The castle building is not not the original one but was reconstructed about 50 years ago, but it was still nice to walk around there while thinking about old history. Cherry blossoms …