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The Miharu Takizakura

Japan’s Most Famous Cherry Blossom

Donny Kimball
6 min readMar 10, 2024

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Fukushima’s Miharu Takizakura is considered to be a natural monument and is beloved as one of the oldest and most beautiful cherry trees in Japan.
This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium

It’s been over a decade since the triple disasters of 2011 wreaked havoc on Japan’s Tohoku region. Even today, many people still fear traveling to Fukushima Prefecture due to some ill-formed notion that they’d be at risk of radiation poisoning. Sadly, no matter how many years seem to pass, Fukushima…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/