TSU--“Mitake no Sakura” (Mitake’s sakura) is a famous cherry blossom viewing spot in the mountains about a one-hour drive from Tsu Station in Mie Prefecture. There, around 500 mountain cherry blossom ...

Mitake is a mountain village near Mie Prefecture’s border with Nara that is famous for the yamazakura growing along a 1.5-kilometer approach to Shinpuku-in, a Buddhist temple founded in the seventh ...