Sakura season officially begins in Tokyo, latest start date in 10 years

Official announcement comes with a new date for full bloom. Back in January, Japanese weather forecasting organisation Weather News released its first sakura forecast for the year, where it predicted the flowers would begin blossoming in Tokyo on 17 March. In early February, an updated forecast pushed the blossoming date back to 20 March, but another update two weeks later switched the prediction to 18 March, before the final forecast, released earlier this month, settled on 19 March. However, in …