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In late March and early April, Japan can experience cold weather. Even this year, it rained and snowed a few days ago. In the Aokigahara Woodland area in Narusawa village and Kawaguchiko town in Yamanashi Prefecture, there was snow and the air was crispy. 

Fresh green mosses on the surfaces of the tree roots and the fungus Perenniporia fraxinea on the tree bark in the Aokigahara Woodland, Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi, 4/02/2025

The fungus Perenniporia fraxinea was used be called Vanderbylia fraxinea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbylia_fraxinea).

FYI: Moss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom

https://n-kishou.com/corp/news-contents/sakura/?lang=en

Cherry trees, Ubaguchi, Kofu, Yamanashi, 3/27/2025

Cherry trees, Mount Fuji Head Sengen Shrine, Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, 3/29/2025

Sengen Shrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengen_shrine

Lichens, Mount Fuji Head Sengen Shrine, Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, 3/29/2025

Lichen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen

Types of Trees: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/cherryblossom/types-of-trees.htm

Prunus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus

List of Cherry blossom: (In Japanese)　https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7

https://mtfuji-whc.jp/en/

https://www.fujisan-whc.jp/en/index.html

Views of Mount Fuji from the observation deck of Mount Fuji World Heritage Center in Shizuoka, Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, 3/18/2025

Fugaku Wind Cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugaku_Wind_Cave

Narusawa Ice Cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narusawa_Ice_Cave

https://www.mtfuji-cave.com/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalagmite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalactite

Fugaku Wind Cave and Narusawa Ice Cave, Fujikawaguchiko and Narusawa Village, Yamanashi, 3/18/2025

https://www.pref.yamanashi.jp.e.aao.hp.transer.com/kouko-hak/

Yamanashi Prefectural Archeological Museum, Kofu, Yamanashi, 3/18/2025

Ren and Mayu, Kofu, Yamanashi, 3/13/2025

Statue of Hachiko, Shibuya Station, Shibuya-ward, Tokyo, 3/13/2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D

Shibuya Crossing, Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ward, Tokyo, 3/13/2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya_Crossing

Yoyogi Park, Jinnan, Shibuya-ward, Tokyo, 3/13/2025

https://yoyogi-cpark.com/

Cherry trees are in full bloom in a museum. Titled “Sakura, Sakura, Sakura 2025 —Flower Viewing at the Museum!,” the exhibition has been held at the Yamatane Museum of Art from March 8 through May 11, 2025.

https://www.yamatane-museum.jp/exh/english/2025/sakura2025.html; https://www.yamatane-museum.jp/english/museumshop/

Somen (thin noodle) dish and Japanese sweets, Cafe Tsubaki (camellia), Yamatane Museum of Art, Hiroo, Shibuya-ward, Tokyo, 3/13/25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dmen

https://www.wagashi.or.jp/japanesesweets-wagashi/en/about/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagashi

Lilytree (Magnolia denudata), Kofu,Yamanashi, 3/09/202

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_denudata

Henbit dead-nettle (Lamium amplexicaule), Arakawa River, Kofu,Yamanashi, 3/09/2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamium_amplexicaule

https://mtfuji-whc.jp/en/; https://mtfuji-whc.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Mt-FUJI-WORLD-HERITAGE-CENTER-en.pdf

Views of Mount Fuji from the Mount Fuji World Heritage Center in Shizuoka, Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, 3/07/2025

Also, please visit the site of April 4, 2024: https://yamanashietsuo.net/mount-fuji-world-heritage-centre-shizuoka/.