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Best doughnuts in Tokyo? Sweet floral creations cause a stir on social media
- Oona McGee
Aug 5, 2020 - Tweet
Edible flowers appear on iced doughnuts and spectacular cold, clear jelly doughnuts for summer.
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Japanese snack maker puts wrong genus of flower on package, rewards customer who noticed
- Master Blaster
May 8, 2020
Luckily, Lunch Pack takes their botany very seriously and corrected the mistake.
- Japan
- (acacia • beekeeping • customer service • flowers • food • honey • Lunch Pack • Yamazaki Baking Company • Yamazaki Pan)
Japanese bath hack: Toss iris leaves in the tub for a traditional shobu yu soak【Photos】
- Katie Pask
May 7, 2020
For health, happiness and just having fun!
- Japan
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Japanese city cuts 800,000 tulips after people refuse to stay away despite coronavirus risks
- Oona McGee
Apr 20, 2020
This is why we can’t have nice things.
- Japan
- (Chiba • coronavirus • COVID-19 • flowers • news • tourism • tourist sites • travel • tulips)
Stay-home sakura – Japanese Twitter shares breathtaking cherry blossom photos of past and present
- Casey Baseel
Apr 1, 2020
Cherry blossom plans cancelled? Here’s a new one: doing hanami at home with these beautiful photos.
Twitter shocked by photo seeming to show rose growing INSIDE tree in Japan (and the gross truth)
- Casey Baseel
Mar 16, 2020
No, fairy magic is not the reason for this stunning phenomenon.
Tokyo florist’s “flower subscription” service lets you choose new blossom to take home every day
- Casey Baseel
Jan 20, 2020
Cafe offers a beautiful way to start your day.
A slime appears…in real-life Japan! Command? Watch this adorable video【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 31, 2019
Is…is Dragon Quest real?!?
- Japan
- (cool • cute • Dragon Quest • flowers • funny • slime • video • video games)
Solid Sakura: Gorgeous photos show cherry blossom season’s grand finale at Japanese castle
- Casey Baseel
May 6, 2019
The castle is one of Japan’s top cherry blossom destinations, and these photos show why.
- Japan
- (beautiful • castles • cherry blossoms • flowers • Hirosaki • Hirosaki Castle • photography • photos • sakura • Tohoku)
Japan’s amazing wisteria flowers are here to make us all forget about the cherry blossoms【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 19, 2019
Amazing garden’s massive 150 year-old flowering ofuji looks more beautiful than ever.
Pink sakura and baby blue eye flowers team up for gorgeous views at this seaside park in Japan【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 13, 2019
Fukuoka isn’t particularly famous for its cherry blossoms, but these photos have us thinking it should be.
- Japan
- (baby blue eyes • beautiful • cherry blossoms • flowers • Fukuoka • nature • Nemophila • parks • sakura)
Sakura jelly desserts are beautiful and back on sale so your “cherry blossoms will bloom”
- Casey Baseel
Jan 18, 2019
Each breathtaking dessert contains a naturally blooming cherry blossom, preserved at its most beautiful moment.
- Japan
- (beautiful • cherry blossoms • flowers • food • sakura • sweets • water cakes)
Japan cherry blossom forecast 2019! Sakura coming earlier than usual to Tokyo
- Casey Baseel
Jan 16, 2019
Japan’s most beloved flowers are often associated with April, but they’ll be at their most beautiful in Tokyo before that, says forecast.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • COK • flowers • nature • sakura • sakura forecast 2019 • travel)
Cherry blossoms are blooming in Japan in October, but why?
- Casey Baseel
Oct 19, 2018
The country’s symbol of spring is being spotted in mid-autumn, so we held a one-man sakura party to celebrate!
- Japan
- (Ahiru Neko • beautiful • cherry blossoms • COK • crazy • flowers • hanami • nature • sakura • SNOJ • Tokyo • weird)
Love blooms after loss: Japanese netizen commemorates grandparents’ romance, gardening skills
- Katy Kelly
Jun 23, 2018
Twitter user is taking the gorgeous blossom that bloomed after her grandmother’s passing as a token of her grandfather’s deep and abiding love.
Hokkaido park’s “sakura on the ground” are a breathtaking reason to venture beyond Sapporo
- Casey Baseel
May 18, 2018
The often-overlooked Doto region of Japan’s northern island is off the beaten path, but should be on your itinerary.
The brilliant blue flowers of Hitachi Seaside Park: Your next flower viewing stop in Japan【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 24, 2018
With sakura season done in the Tokyo area, it’s time to switch from pink to blue and the 4.5 million Nemophila flowers of this amazing park.
Solo sakura: Four reasons to have a one-person cherry blossom-viewing party
- Casey Baseel
Apr 3, 2018
The only person you need to enjoy the sakura is yourself.
Revised full-bloom cherry blossom forecasts released for every prefecture in Japan
- Casey Baseel
Mar 20, 2018
Sakura season is coming to Japan much earlier than usual this year, and here’s when to expect them to be their most beautiful.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • flowers • nature • sakura • sakura 2018 • travel)
Sakura season 2018 officially declared in Tokyo as first cherry blossoms begin to bloom
- Oona McGee
Mar 18, 2018
Hanami flower-viewing season begins nine days earlier than average as the city’s official “sample tree” sprouts its first blossoms.
- Japan
- (cherry blossoms • flowers • hanami • hyoujun-ki • Japan Meteorological Agency • sakura • sakura 2018 • sakura forecast • spring • Tokyo • tourism • tourist sites • travel • Yasukuni Shrine)
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