--- title: Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in Japan: Sakura Photos description: Every year, around late March to early April, cherry blossoms, or sakura, bloom across Japan. See Instagram photos of Japan in full bloom canonical: https://time.com/43119/cherry-blossom-sakura-season-japan/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-31T03:17:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:20.534Z article:section: World og:title: Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in Japan: Sakura Photos og:description: Every year, around late March to early April, cherry blossoms, or sakura, bloom across Japan. See Instagram photos of Japan in full bloom og:url: https://time.com/43119/cherry-blossom-sakura-season-japan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in Japan: Sakura Photos twitter:description: Every year, around late March to early April, cherry blossoms, or sakura, bloom across Japan. See Instagram photos of Japan in full bloom twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in Japan by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 31, 2014 3:17 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 31, 2014 3:17 AM CUT Every year, around late March to early April, cherry blossoms — or sakura — bloom all across Japan. They usher in a new season and transform the landscape into a sea of white and gorgeous light pink. People have been taking to Instagram to share the beauty of Japan in full bloom: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/43119/cherry-blossom-sakura-season-japan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/43119/cherry-blossom-sakura-season-japan/"},"headline":"See Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in Japan","datePublished":"2014-03-31T03:17:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:20.534Z","description":"Instagrammers show the world the beauty of sakura season","url":"https://time.com/43119/cherry-blossom-sakura-season-japan/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Japan","Instagram","Flowers","Pink","Good News"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/43119/cherry-blossom-sakura-season-japan/","name":"See Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom in Japan"}}]}] ```