It Snow Tokyo!

After weeks of hearing about the blankets of murderous snow smothering the provinces, I was mostly quite happy that Tokyo wasn't being bogged down by this problem. But then secretly I was kind of jealous that we couldn't have our own winter wonderland here too. And then it suddenly snowed in Tokyo today!! And proper, fat inches of snow too! This is what I like about Japan, the weather mean business: when it rains, it rains - none of this drizzling misery that you get at the very least once a week in London.

So I went for a walk around the Yanaka area of old Tokyo that I blogged about a couple of weeks ago.


Just around the corner from my flat.


A bit corny, I know, but still.


I've never experienced snow in Japan before. Right now I can't imagine a country which would feel more mysterious and magical than Japan in the snow.




Me.


Me in a previous take realising I had the camera on the wrong setting and walking back to reset it.


Relatively rare old building in Tokyo.




Chilly immigrant camel.