Yamanashi City's mapped tree holds a hilltop clearing on its own. Okkazuma no Shidarezakura is a weeping cherry at about 680 metres in the Okkazuma district, with the Kofu Basin dropping away below it and Mt Fuji across the far side. Published here as a single-tree place under the 2026-08-31 exception, too far across the basin from any city we already map for a same-day trip.
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Okkazuma no Shidarezakura (the Weeping Cherry of Okkazuma)
Weeping Higan Cherry (Prunus subhirtella) · roughly 150 to 200 years · Okkazuma, Makioka, Yamanashi City
At 8.7 metres tall this is a small tree, and people drive a mountain road to stand in front of it anyway. The weeping cherry of Okkazuma holds a hilltop clearing on its own at about 680 metres, on ground the hamlet calls Yama no Ue, with the Kofu Basin dropping away below it and Mt Fuji across the far side. Nothing else is in the frame. That is the whole of why it is famous.
The measurements are human scale: 3.8 metres round at chest height, 4.6 at the root collar, a crown about 8.5 metres across. Its age was put at 150 to 200 years when the old town of Makioka made it a natural monument on 30 March 1976. Yamanashi City inherited the designation in the municipal merger and still lists it today.
The hilltop is a local family's field, kept open to anyone who walks up, with no conditions attached. Two small shrines, Akihasan and Tenjingu, share the clearing, and the households of Okkazuma hold their own hanami up here when the tree opens in early April. It is lit after dark through the flowering week.
Every source calls it simply a shidarezakura and none of them names the parentage, so which weeping cherry this actually is has never been settled. If you know, tell us. Come by car; the parking below the hill takes about ten vehicles and no buses at all.
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