Winter Days in Snow land in Japan

Hi All, I'm living in Tokyo and I had staying snow land north of Tokyo on Dec.2011-Jan. 2012.
Winter days in Japan, north land have heavy snow and south land have not so cold.
My own car is a SUBARU Legacy wagon,the car has all wheels drive system.

On 31th Dec.2011 I went to Mt.Akagi ,Its about 60 miles north of Tokyo and have some lakes.
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1st photo takes at north of Mt.Akagi road.

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Every autumn I used this road was closed.

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This lake named "Kakuman-Buchi" was frozen.

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Beside of "Kakuman-Buchi" lake ,the other lake is bigger than it called "Oh-numa".
"Oh-numa" lake was not all frozen.

Next day,1st Jan.2012 I went to Mt.Akagi again.
In Japan, Traditional event "Hatsuhi no de" it's a seeing for New Year's 1st rising Sun.

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Unfortunately there were cloudy.

Then I went to Akagi Shrine,It's another new year's event named "Hatsu Moude".
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I made a wish about Safe and happy year.

Then I had very Fun time,It's SNOW Driving!
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I enjoyed SNOW Driving enough.
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Thank you for seeing.

Hiro

Very pretty, Domo Aragato!

Nice pictures, thanks so much for sharing!

i had no idea that it snowed in Japan

Beautiful pics Hiro, thanks for sharing them.

Jeff

Very Nice pictures Hiro. For some reason I never thought it snowed in Japan either.....Thanks for posting them..

Very beautiful pics Hiro. Now you need to wait for that lake to fully freeze over and go do some Ice Fishing lol.

Beautiful pics! My wife and I would love to visit Japan sometime soon! Thanx!

_Allan_

[FONT=century gothic]Beautiful country Hiro. I dig the Rising Sun pic. Thanks so much for sharing.

Ray:)[/FONT]