Originally Posted by
Srisarin
This will be our 8th trip to Kansai District during mid-April (which corresponds to the Thai Songkran holiday period so our office closed for 2 weeks) and Biwa was added as a new place to explore as previously limited to Osaka/Kyoto/Nara/Kobe/Himeji - always had plenty of blossoms during this time period
As long as you're in the lowlands, which I think Biwa is, you should be fine (Yamanakako is quite high up in the mountains, so it's significantly colder there, resulting in late blooms).