Tourists and locals enjoy 'ephemeral' Tokyo cherry blossoms

Crowds flocked to the city's top locations to take photos and hold picnics under the elegant dark branches bursting with pink and white flowers, known as "sakura" in Japanese. "Honestly it feels pretty amazing to be here. It's honestly better than we expected. And it only comes around every once in a while and only for a short span of time," Christian Sioting, a tourist from the Philippines, told AFP. "It's an ephemeral experience and we're pretty happy that we got to be here and to witness it...