Cherries are red.

Cherry blossom season is here. Viewing the delicate flower is a seasonal excuse in Japan for friends, family and colleagues to get together and enjoy food and beers underneath the full bloom of sakura.

The early flowering cherry blossoms are in full bloom!

Strong winds and spring showers down cherry blossom petals.

A path is covered in cherry blossom petals.

A cherry petal accidentally fell into a drink.

Taking your puppy to a park where cherry blossoms are in bloom will make for great photo ops.

Cherry blossoms at Chidorigafuchi park near Kudanshita station in Tokyo.

Spring in Japan Means More Than Just Flowering Cherry Trees

So all you need is good cheese and a jar of black cherry jam.

Photo of Cherry Blossoms In January by Night Heron on Flickr.

Walking underneath the full bloom of sakura can feel like walking through a floral tunnel.

Flickr user y.ganden spotted a Japanese Bush Warbler in the blooming sakura trees.

Cherry 01 adjusted its flight plan and made up the time lost at engine start.

In some European traditions sour cherries are used both between the layers and for decorating the top.

It's common to see people napping under the cherry blossoms after so much drinking.

Photo taken in Yawata, Kyoto on April 1, 2014 by Flickr user Japanexperterna.

This is the basis of the famous Cherry red spot seen on examination of the retina on funduscopy of a central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO).

The couple are shown in an upstairs room with a chest and a bed in it during early summer as indicated by the fruit on the cherry tree outside the window.

This building, when an artistic director wanted to do a Cherry Orchard and wanted people and wanted people to come out of a well on the stage, they brought a backhoe in, and they simply dug the hole.

Japanese media tracks and reports on the pollen season each year in much the same way it reports on the blooming of the cherry blossoms.

When you think of springtime in Japan, the first thing that comes to mind is iconic clouds of cotton candy pink blossoms, known as sakura (桜) in Japanese. The flowers bloom earliest in Japan's southwest, advancing north and eastward across the archipelago in what is known as the cherry blossom front or sakura zensen (桜前線).