Meguro River Cherry Blossoms Promenade

This guide to the Meguro River Cherry Blossoms Promenade in Tokyo starts with the flood-prone channel engineers straightened in 1927, and the eight hundred spindly cherry saplings residents planted along the raw concrete banks to hold them together. It follows the trees through wartime losses and repeated replanting, into the nearly four-kilometer canopy that stands today. Paper lanterns line the railings each spring, lit from five until eight in the evening during peak bloom.