Sakura is one of key seasonal festivities in Japan
Inside this huge garden, Sakura, Tsubaki (Camelia) and Tsutsuji (Azalea) were blooming.
Returned to Hakodate after visiting Onuma National Park. Bumped into sakura blossom. What a surprising bonus 
The spot was about 15min by shuttle bus from Fukushima station. From the bus stop, it took another 30min to walk past local farms and fields before ascending to a hill. Apart from various sakura species which blossomed, there were many other types of flowers such as peach, dogwood, tulips grown in the small hill around rural farms, composing a colourful spring view in the backdrop of distant Mt Azuma range.
This was our first sakura visit in Tohoku in 2009. Visited a top 100 sakura spots in Japan nearby Sendai, about 30 min by local train.
The only top 100 sakura spots in Miyagi Prefecture where Sendai is. An easy 20 min walk up a small hill from JR Funagaoka station. From there, we had a great view of the thousand-sakura along the Shiroishi river dyke with Mt Zao faintly in the background.
Visited the 8km long Shiroishi river dyke at the foothill of Funaoka Castle Park. “Hitome Senbonzakura” literally means thousand Sakura at a glance. A beautiful row of big Sakura trees of 80 years and more formed a sakura tunnel where visitors could relax along the dyke.
On another day, visited the same but from the other end of the dyke nearby JR Ogawara station 大河原駅 (宮城県). Sakura tunnel was on either side of the river dyke.
Visited Sakura blossom in Sendai and Fukushima in mid-April for the first time. First stop in Tokyo before heading north.
Though it was a bit late in Tokyo for the Somei Yoshino sakura, the late sakuras were blooming on a pretty warm and sunny day.
Our 2nd visit since 2004 koyo season. This time is for peak sakura season though. We strolled around the hilly onsen town, dotted by temples and two public onsen for daytime visitors. As usual, we did not go for the public ones but saved the soak in the onsen ryokan instead.
World Heritage. 2nd visit since April 2000 for sakura.
After 15 years since 2000, we returned to Kyoto during peak sakura season
from Gion, walk towards Yasaka shrine and up further then you arrive at this park. During the sakura season, it is spectacular to have several hundred trees blossoming at the same time. Besides, in the middle, there is a huge Shidarezakura (weeping sakura) tree which is gorgeous in the day as well as being light up in the evening. Sadly, compared to when we last visited in 2000, it has shrunk. Upon return, 3 Japanese ladies in kimono were playing traditional music in Yasaka Shrine.
Having visited many sakura spots in Japan, by far this is still the most impressive. In other sakura spots the Somei Yoshino (slightly pink, but almost in white) are widely planted. However, the ones in Heian Jingu are predominantly of Yaeshidare-zakura (pink overhanging). It happened that a Japanese couple was holding their wedding ceremony.
visited Ito onsen town and Izu Kogen. Sakura blossom was later than yearly average by about 1 week. We had gone to Kyoto prior to this but were disappointed as almost all sakura trees were still in budding stage. Thus, we were so glad that we made the right decision to detour back to Kanto as sakura was in full bloom in Ito and Izu Kogen. At the end of the 4km long sakura boulevard (tunnel) uphill we arrived at the Sakura-no-sato (hometown).
Visited during peak Sakura blossom in late Feb for super-early species Kawazu-zakura (河津櫻), with larger pink petals. Isn’t it amazing that prior to visiting this we were skiing in Hakuba ? It’s like we have visited 2 different countries in a single trip.
The Kawazu-zakura were planted on both sides of the Kawazu river, which stretched for 4km+ from the river mouth upstream.
Before returning to Tokyo, we stayed in an onsen hotel in nearby Imaihama, with a beach by the sea.
