Nara’s Top Cherry Blossom Sites

The deer and the blossoms of Nara Park make a comforting sight.

The main hall of Tōdaiji, which houses the Great Buddha statue of Nara, sets off the surrounding cherry trees.

Built in the Nara period (710–94), Sangatsudō (Hokkedō), highlighted by cherry blossoms, is the oldest structure on the Tōdaiji grounds.

Weeping cherry trees bloom near the crimson Sanmon gate of Kasuga Shrine.

The Nara National Museum Buddhist Art Research Center, an example of modern Japanese architecture and a nationally designated important cultural asset, elegantly draped with blossoms.

Elegant weeping cherries decorate the towers and moat of the Kōriyama Castle ruins.

The impressive Matabē-zakura, accompanied by brilliantly blooming peach trees in the background.

An aerial view of Mount Yoshino’s cherries.

The densely blooming cherry trees are unmistakably hitome-senbon (a thousand trees at a glance).