Cherry Blossoms Are Blooming in Japan

Monday, March 22, 2021

Cherry Blossoms Are Blooming in Japan

Yesterday, my mother-in-law e-mailed me and sent these photos from Japan. She said cherry blossoms were in full bloom in Japan!

Cherry Blossoms in 2021 (photo from my mother-in-law)

If you have ever been in Japan during spring, you might know how much Japanese people love cherry blossoms, which are called sakura (桜, さくら) in Japanese. :) If someone asks me, "When is the best season to travel to Japan?", I will definitely say, "It's spring." Spring is the season when sakura starts blooming, and you can see sakuras everywhere in Japan. Sakura blooms and falls gracefully in a short period of time (It's usually less than two weeks) in spring.

Cherry Blossoms in 2021 (photo from my mother-in-law)

2014

When I visited Japan during sakura blooming season in 2014, I took Chappy, my family's dog, for a walk with my brother. I enjoyed seeing that sakura petals were falling from trees. Beautiful pink petals were flying in sky like butterflies, and the ground underneath sakura trees looked as if it were a gorgeous pink carpet. In 2018, my family told me that Chappy had passed away from cancer. I cannot see Chappy again, but when spring comes, I remember that we walked together underneath fully blooming beautiful sakura trees in 2014.

This is the video I recorded in Fukuoka, Japan in spring in 2014.