On Sunday, the western city of Kochi and the southwestern city of Kumamoto were the first in the country to see this season’s cherry blossoms.

On Monday, cherry trees also began having flowers in the southwestern cities of Nagasaki, Miyazaki and Kagoshima.

Thanks to warm weather since mid-March, cherry blossoms are coming into bloom across Japan.

Cherry blossoms start blooming in Tokyo

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