Cherry Blossom in Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden Saku, Tokyo, Japan - known in Japanese as Sakura

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A cherry blossom is the flower of any of several trees of genus Prunus, particularly the Japanese Cherry, Prunus serrulata, which is sometimes called sakura after the Japanese. Every year the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the public track the sakura zensen (cherry blossom front) as it moves northward up the archipelago with the approach of warmer weather via nightly forecasts following the weather segment of news programs. The blossoming begins in Okinawa in January and typically reaches Kyoto and Tokyo at the end of March or the beginning of April

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Size: 6000px × 3375px
Location: Shinjuku Gardens, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Jpan
Photo credit: © Matthew Ashton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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