Autumn Color Reports 2025

The peak of the autumn color season in Kyoto started about a week ago, and is currently still in full swing. Many of the city’s autumn colors spots should remain at their best for a few days into the first week of...

Temperatures around Tokyo have been below average in recent weeks, encouraging the city’s trees to reach the height of their autumnal beauty over the last few days - a timing that aligns quite closely with the typical...

Today we continue with our autumn color coverage, this time from Kyoto. I visited three temples in Kyoto known for their seasonal foliage, and I am pleased to report that the leaves are quickly approaching their best....

We are now in the second half of November, when the leaves that change colors usually develop more red and orange hues than remain green. I made my way to Nagoya after yesterday’s autumn color report from Tokyo, where...

After reporting about autumn colors from Hokkaido, Tohoku, the Mount Fuji area and even Kyoto, today we finally bring to you our first Tokyo autumn color report for this 2025 season.Broadly speaking, the leaves of...

Following on from Matt’s Kyoto report last week, today I visited a few different leaf viewing locations to see how things have progressed in the former capital.Many of Kyoto’s spots for autumn colors tend not to...

So far, our reports this season have been from rural areas as the autumn colors crept southwards towards Japan’s major cities, most recently from Raina’s visit to the Fuji Five Lakes. Yesterday however, I...

A quick recap of the autumn color season so far, we started our autumn color reporting at the end of September with Schauwecker in Daisetsuzan in Hokkaido, and kept to the higher elevations for the first few reports....

Located at the foot of Mount Asama in Nagano Prefecture, the upmarket resort town of Karuizawa takes just an hour to reach from Tokyo by Hokuriku Shinkansen and so becomes a popular getaway every year during the hot...

Yesterday, the color of the maple leaves at Yamadera Temple were just starting to change. Today, I continued with my autumn color reporting in northeastern Japan, and went to Naruko Gorge about 90 minutes from Sendai....

It has been almost ten days since Cassie reported from Nikko, where the fall foliage were at their peak colors, and over a month since the start of our autumn color coverage. Up until now, we have only visited places...

Following on with our 2025 autumn reports, today I was happy to visit my favorite autumn spot, Nikko in Tochigi Prefecture!Although I visited at almost the exact same date as Charly did last year, the state seems...

Continuing with our autumn color reports, I visited Oze National Park today. The national park, which extends into four prefectures: Gunma, Tochigi, Fukushima and Niigata, is a popular hiking destination. Come fall,...

About a week ago, Schauwecker did our first 2025 autumn color report from Daisetsuzan in Hokkaido. Today, I made my way to Murodo, the tallest point along the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route and also one of the first few...

Welcome to the 2025 autumn color reporting on japan-guide.com! As usual we start reporting from Hokkaido’s Daisetsuzan National Park, the first place in Japan to see autumn colors.Today I visited the area around...