Blooming beauty: People walking underneath the Kawazu cherry blossom trees, one of the earliest blooming cherry blossoms in Japan, in Kawazu of Shizuoka prefecture. — AFP
If you are visiting Tokyo in mid-March, you may get lucky and be among the first in Japan to witness cherry blossoms blooming.
The phenomenon is expected on March 18 in the capital, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Feb 20, based on the most recent forecast.
