There are seasons… and then there is Sakura season. Come March to April, Japan blushes in a thousand shades of pink, as cherry blossoms — delicate, dramatic and delightfully fleeting — sweep across the country in the most poetic colour parade on earth. But here’s the chic insider secret: the bloom doesn’t happen all at once. It begins in the balmy south and slowly sashays north, meaning if you time it right, you can follow the blush.