Planning a trip to Japan to see this year’s Cherry Blossom season but unsure of where to go and more importantly when? Check out this handy guide below which covers the major prefectures and blooming dates for 2018.
- Kyushu
Fukuoka: March 24
Oita: March 24
Nagasaki: March 22
Saga: March 24
Kumamoto: March 21
Miyazaki: March 21
Kagoshima: March 22 - Shikoku
Kagawa: March 28
Tokushima: March 28
Ehime: March 26
Kochi: March 21
- Honshu
Hiroshima: March 27
Okayama: March 28
Shimane: April 1
Tottori: April 1
Yamaguchi: March 28
Osaka: March 28
Shiga: April 4
Kyoto: March 28
Hyogo: March 29
Nara: March 31
Wakayama: March 26
Aichi: March 26
Shizuoka: March 25
Gifu: March 26
Mie: March 30
- Tokyo: March 24
Ibaraki: April 3
Tochigi: April 4
Gunma: April 1
Saitama: March 30
Chiba: March 30
Kanagawa: March 28
Yamanashi: March 29
Nagano: April 12
Niigata: April 9
Toyama: April 6
Ishikawa: April 4
Fukui: April 4
Miyagi: April 11
Aomori: April 24
Akita: April 17
Iwate: April 20
Yamagata: April 14
Fukushima: April 10 - Hokkaido: April 30
Like with all weather predictions, take this with a grain of salt but at least now you have a general idea of when to expect the Sakura to show themselves.
Source: RocketNews
