Cherry Blossom 2016 Help?

[liviatan]

Hi all,

need your help. This will be my first travel to Japan and will be going Tokyo.
Just checking will it be best to go on 2nd april - 10 april or 19 march - 27 march if i want to see cherry blossom. Apparently, i can't go on 28 march - 1st april due to work

anyone knows roughly when will cherry blossom full bloom. i read online that it's best to visit in early april.

 

[mel_01]

Hi all,

need your help. This will be my first travel to Japan and will be going Tokyo.
Just checking will it be best to go on 2nd april - 10 april or 19 march - 27 march if i want to see cherry blossom. Apparently, i can't go on 28 march - 1st april due to work

anyone knows roughly when will cherry blossom full bloom. i read online that it's best to visit in early april.

Apr 2-10 will be better of the 2.

 

[s7460597]

Use this as a guide.


http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2011.html

 

[cancer81]

You should find out where will have trees in bloom when you can make it.

The way the geography works out, you can find some as late as mid to late May.

 

[xtwis7]

April is usually quite safe. Late March could be too early but then again, it's hard to say now also.

 

[liviatan]

Awwww! Okay thanks all

Any hotels to recommend? Haha

 

[s7460597]

Awwww! Okay thanks all

Any hotels to recommend? Haha

Budget and which area?

 

[liviatan]

Budget and which area?

$150/night for 2 pax?

 

[s7460597]

These are pretty popular: sunroute shinjuku, ibis shinjuku hotel gracery shinjuku. Near shinjuku train station.

 

[Wood41]

Toyoko Inn should be less than S$100 for 2.
Save the money for food / purchase etc .

 

[saffronsatire]

Can check out ours Inn hankyu or prince shinagawa.

 

[samtcy]

Sakura seasons are quite unpredictable nowadays...since it is dependent on the weather conditions. It is way too early to predict sakura season for 2016...since a more accurate prediction will probably be out some time in Jan 2016, I guess.

Usually, the best time to visit Sakura season for Tokyo is probably last week of March to 1st week of April.

But then, back in 2013's sakura season where I happened to be at Tokyo in mid-March, the sakura season started 2 weeks early due to that year's weather (sakura season started officially at around 16 March for Tokyo) and there was quite a few days of heavy rain and wind (which blew off most of the petals of the sakura) and therefore the sakura season for that particular year was pretty short.
By the time I was leaving Tokyo at end March, the sakura trees at Ueno Park were already pretty bare.

I was lucky, since I wasn't expecting to be able to catch sakura season at all for that trip, because I thought that mid-March will be way too early for sakura to start blooming.

So it really depends on your luck.

 

[liviatan]

Thanks all! decided to go on 2 - 10 apr as this seems to be a better timing compared to going on mid march