{
  "name": "Recorded cherry blossom dates for Nara",
  "source": "https://kippujapan.com/data/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 — attribution to Kippu Japan; observations by the Japan Meteorological Agency",
  "observedBy": "Nara Local Meteorological Office",
  "species": "Somei-yoshino (Prunus × yedoensis)",
  "definitions": {
    "first": "Kaika (開花) — the day five or six blossoms on the sample tree have opened.",
    "peak": "Mankai (満開) — the day about eighty per cent of the blossoms are open."
  },
  "caveat": "Observed by the Japan Meteorological Agency on one designated sample tree in Nara city, to a national standard. These are the city's dates, not Mount Yoshino's — see the Yoshino section.",
  "upstream": "https://www.data.jma.go.jp/sakura/data/",
  "lastChecked": "2026-09-03",
  "normal": {
    "first": "03-28",
    "peak": "04-04"
  },
  "years": [
    {
      "year": 2011,
      "first": "03-31",
      "peak": "04-08"
    },
    {
      "year": 2012,
      "first": "04-03",
      "peak": "04-09"
    },
    {
      "year": 2013,
      "first": "03-22",
      "peak": "03-29"
    },
    {
      "year": 2014,
      "first": "03-27",
      "peak": "04-01"
    },
    {
      "year": 2015,
      "first": "03-27",
      "peak": "03-31"
    },
    {
      "year": 2016,
      "first": "03-23",
      "peak": "04-02"
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "first": "04-03",
      "peak": "04-08"
    },
    {
      "year": 2018,
      "first": "03-24",
      "peak": "03-29"
    },
    {
      "year": 2019,
      "first": "03-29",
      "peak": "04-05"
    },
    {
      "year": 2020,
      "first": "03-26",
      "peak": "04-03"
    },
    {
      "year": 2021,
      "first": "03-21",
      "peak": "03-30"
    },
    {
      "year": 2022,
      "first": "03-25",
      "peak": "03-31"
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "first": "03-20",
      "peak": "03-27"
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "first": "03-31",
      "peak": "04-08"
    },
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "first": "03-28",
      "peak": "04-04"
    },
    {
      "year": 2026,
      "first": "03-24",
      "peak": "03-31"
    }
  ],
  "yoshino": {
    "verified": false,
    "note": "Mount Yoshino is a mountainside, not a city park, and it does not bloom all at once. Its groves are counted in four bands from the foot of the hill upwards, and they open in that order, later than the city below. We have not yet confirmed a year-by-year record for each band, so we do not publish day offsets we cannot source.",
    "zones": [
      {
        "name": "Shimo Senbon",
        "nameJa": "下千本",
        "position": "Lowest, around the ropeway and Kinpusen-ji approach",
        "order": 1
      },
      {
        "name": "Naka Senbon",
        "nameJa": "中千本",
        "position": "The main village and the classic viewpoints",
        "order": 2
      },
      {
        "name": "Kami Senbon",
        "nameJa": "上千本",
        "position": "The steep slope above the village",
        "order": 3
      },
      {
        "name": "Oku Senbon",
        "nameJa": "奥千本",
        "position": "The highest and last to open, near Kinpu Shrine",
        "order": 4
      }
    ]
  }
}