Published April 8, 2015 • Updated on March 21, 2016 at 10:54 am If you can't make it to the Tidal Basin this year, there's another way you can check out D.C.'s famed cherry blossoms.

OSAKA, Japan - The number of Chinese tourists visiting Japan has surged recently as the cherry blossoms enter their peak period of bloom, reports the Yangtze Evening News.