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Flower Ice Cream becomes Japan’s newest breathtaking dessert

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 7, 2025
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Inventive anko experts hand-craft edible sweets bouquets, offer Flower Shaved Ice too.

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• Japan
• (anko • azuki • beautiful • cool • flowers • food • Japanese sweets • ohagi • sweet red beans • sweets)

The joy of creating a wild Japanese ikebana flower arrangement for a country house【SoraHouse】

• Elliot Hale
  Jul 11, 2025

With no experience and 100-percent locally-sourced materials.

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• (art • beautiful • COK • culture • flower arrangement • flowers • Go Hatori • ikebana • nature • SNJO • SoraHouse • tokonoma)

Japanese cafe’s beautiful Hydrangea Gelatin Shaved Ice is a reason to love the rainy season

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 12, 2025

A non-matcha green tea dessert to get out of the rain with.

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• (ajisai • beautiful • cafes • flowers • food • green tea • hydrangeas • restaurants • sencha • shaved ice • sweets • tea)

Japan’s 10 most beautiful hydrangea spots to visit【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 10, 2025

Grab your umbrellas and get ready to see the silver/blue/purple/pink lining to Japan’s rainy season.

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• (beautiful • COK • flowers • hydrangeas • outdoors • tourism • travel)

Japan’s best rose gardens to visit in 2025

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 2, 2025

With thousands of bushes to be enjoyed, these floral wonderlands are just waiting for you to stroll around them.

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• (Ashikaga Flower Park • COK • flower festivals • flowers • gardens • Ibaraki Flower Park • Kyu-Furukawa Garden • nature • outdoors • parks • rose • roses • tourism • travel)

Tokyo’s Hydrangea Mountain is a spot of beauty created by one son’s love for his parents【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2025

Thousands of flowers bloom in the west Tokyo mountains, but they all started from one man’s kind thoughts.

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• (ajisai • beautiful • flowers • Hydrangea Mountain • hydrangeas • Minamisawa Ajisaiyama • moving • nature • outdoors • touching)

Uji matcha tea specialist from the Edo period releases a range of sweets for hydrangea season

• Oona McGee
  May 25, 2025

Itohkyuemon leads the way when it comes to matcha ice creams and parfaits.

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• (ajisai • COK • flowers • food • green tea • hydrangea • hydrangeas • ice cream • Kyoto • matcha • matcha ice cream • matcha sweets • parfait • parfaits • sweets • Uji • Uji Matcha)

Studio Ghibli releases new Kodama flower vase that glows in the dark, lights up your heart

• Oona McGee
  May 3, 2025

Princess Mononoke anime characters highlight the beauty of nature…and the Japanese language.

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• (anime • anime merchandise • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • flower vase • flowers • gaming interior • Ghibli • ichirin • kodama • manga • merchandise • Princess Mononoke • Studio Ghibli • vase)

Japan’s 160-year-old Great Wisteria of Tochigi is now in full bloom, ready for visitors【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 1, 2025

You don’t get this beautiful in a day, and Ashikaga Flower Park has two other types of flowers also looking their best.

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• (Ashikaga • Ashikaga Flower Park • beautiful • COK • flowers • gardens • Great Wisteria • nature • outdoors • Tochigi • Tochigi Prefecture • wisteria)

Mt. Fuji’s “field sakura” coming into bloom as Shibazakura Festival begins

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 26, 2025

Annual event in Fuji Five Lakes area offers one of the most beautiful views of the symbol of Japan.

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• (beautiful • COK • field sakura • flowers • Fuji Five Lakes • Mt. Fuji • nature • Shibazakura)

This secret spring flower-viewing spot in Japan is yet to be discovered by international tourists

• Oona McGee
  Apr 11, 2025

Escape the crowds at this spectacular hidden “togenkyo”.

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• (cherry blossoms • COK • flower viewing • flowers • Fuefuki • hanami • hidden gems • Peach • peach blossoms • sakura • SNJO • Togenkyo • tourist sites • travel • Yamanashi • Yamanashi Prefecture)

Sweets maker Funabashiya celebrates 220 years at popular Tokyo shrine’s Wisteria Festival

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 1, 2025

Enjoy limited-edition sweet treats from a master wagashi maker directly under the wisteria flowers at Kameido Tenjin Shrine in April.

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• (anmitsu • beautiful • COK • flowers • Funabashiya • Kameido Tenjin Shrine • kuzu-mochi • shrines • sweets • temples • wagashi • wisteria)

Latest Japan cherry blossom forecast pushes Tokyo date back, sakura now expected first elsewhere

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2025

First sakura sightings now predicted for prefecture on opposite side of Japan from Tokyo.

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• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms forecast • cherry blossoms forecast 2025 • COK • flowers • nature • sakura • sakura forecast • sakura forecast 2025 • tourism • travel)

Updated cherry blossom forecast shows extra-long sakura season for Japan this year

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 27, 2025

Maps and projected dates present a great opportunity for travelers looking to chase the cherry blossoms from one end of Japan to the other.

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• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms forecast • cherry blossoms forecast 2025 • COK • flowers • nature • sakura • sakura forecast • sakura forecast 2025 • tourism • travel)

Japan’s plum blossom season is here, and after-dark garden is one of the best spots to see them

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 25, 2025

One of Japan’s three most beautiful gardens gets even more beautiful with special ume illumination event.

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• (beautiful • COK • flowers • gardens • Ibaraki • Kairakuen • light up • nature • plum • plum blossoms • ume)

Newest Japan full-bloom cherry blossom forecast shows mankai sakura coming earlier, especially in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 17, 2025

Sakura expected to reach full bloom earlier than last year in all regions of Japan but one.

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• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms forecast • cherry blossoms forecast 2025 • COK • flowers • nature • sakura • sakura forecast • sakura forecast 2025 • tourism • travel)

Updated Japan cherry blossom forecast maps move up predicted start of sakura season

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 3, 2025

We’re getting closer to the start of sakura season, in more ways than one.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms forecast • cherry blossoms forecast 2025 • COK • flowers • nature • sakura • sakura forecast • sakura forecast 2025 • tourism • travel)

It’s time to get a jump on beautiful pink blossoms at this forest garden in Japan【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 1, 2025

Why wait for sakura when ume are already almost here?

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • flowers • gardens • nature • parks • plum blossoms • plums • Suzuka • tourism • travel • ume)

Super-detailed cherry blossom forecast maps for 2025 show warm winter doesn’t mean early sakura

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 15, 2025

Maps show expected blossoming dates for major cities across Japan.

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• Japan
• (cherry blossoms • cherry blossoms forecast • cherry blossoms forecast 2025 • COK • flowers • nature • sakura • sakura forecast • sakura forecast 2025 • tourism • travel)

Starbucks Japan releases a new Frappuccino that looks and tastes like a floral bouquet

• Oona McGee
  Dec 19, 2024

Reward yourself for a year of hard work…with drinkable flowers.

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• Japan
• (Christmas • Christmas 2024 • coffee • COK • drinks • Earl grey • flowers • holiday • latte • limited edition • new year • New Year 2025 • Starbucks • Starbucks Japan • Starbucks limited edition • tea • winter)

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