One of the things I was most excited about when I found out I would be spending three months in Japan was knowing that my visit would overlap with cherry blossom season. As one of my colleagues put it being here from February to the end of April meant I would be experiencing the most miserable and the most beautiful seasons in Tokyo. I had seen lots of beautiful pictures of cherry blossom in Japan but I definitely didn’t have an understanding that it was so important or popular here and why that is the case.

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