Visiting Mount Fuji during cherry blossom season is quite the experience, and I’m so happy it fell into my lap. On a whim, my friend and I planned a quick jaunt to Japan, which happened to be ...

Just a 15-minute walk away is Nagasaki Park, another popular spot to take iconic photos of the cherry blossoms framing Mount Fuji across the lake. Along the eastern shores, a small peninsula juts ...

Zekkei translates to “beautiful scenery,” and the mountainous part of that promise comes from the Zekkei Fireworks venue, the Fujiten Resort area located partway up the slopes of Mount Fuji, near its ...

Mount Fuji is as quintessentially Japanese as cherry blossom, manga and geisha, and some 25 sites of sacred, artistic or cultural importance are cited in the mountain’s 2013 listing as a Unesco ...

This Mountain National Park Is Japan's Best Cherry Blossom Destination—With 30,000 Trees, Gorgeous Hiking Trails, and Ancient Shrines. Mount Yoshino offers a good (and beautiful) reason to get ...

There is still no snow on Mount Fuji ... Japan’s highest mountain is generally snowcapped by mid-October, ... Earlier this year, Japan’s early bloom of cherry blossoms had also sparked concerns.

Mount Fuji, the country’s ... The mountain has long been revered as a spiritual, political and cultural symbol, ... “Cherry-blossom Viewing at Asuka Hill” by Hiroshige Utagawa, 1853.

They want guests to be able to see fireworks and cherry blossoms at the same time, so they’ve scheduled the event for April, when the sakura will be in bloom. The Zekkei Fireworks isn’t just ...