There are 1,500 trees belonging to 30 species in the ume grove at Kitano Tenmangū Shrine. The trees usually reach peak bloom from early February to late March, but some flower as early as January, ...

Northern Tōhoku is often buried in snow until quite late in spring, and ume, Japanese plum blossoms, are eagerly awaited as a harbinger of the season. Northern Honshū’s prime venues for ume blossoms ...

Jeju Hallim Park is holding the 14th Ume Flower Festival which runs until March 3. This festival enables visitors to appreciate a colorful range of ume flowers at the ume flower garden in Hallim Park.

No author could have been more partial to flowers of ume Japanese apricots than Eiji Yoshikawa. Yoshikawa (1892-1962) just loved the blossoms whether seeing them in someone’s garden across a back ...