Famous cherry grove of Hitome-sembon on Mount Yoshino—a thousand 
trees line the path and cover the hillside 
visiting, even for busy travellers who can ill spare 
the time, and despite the disadvantage of the huge 
crowds flocking there in the flower season. Still, the 
unrivalled beauty of the flowers will be more than com- 
pensate for the loss of time. Proceeding from Kami- 
no-sembon (Upper sembon) on to Oku-no-sembon 
(Inner sembon) one will find the locality pleasingly 
quiet and lonely, in marked contrast to the lower sec- 
tion one has passed through. Among the cherry trees 
in Yoshino there are found many varieties, one being 
characterised by different colours. The flowering 
season is the middle of April for the cherry trees at 
Hitome-sembon and Naka-no-sembon, and the latter 
part of the same month for those at the other places. 
Yoshinoyama is also noted as the seat of the South- 
