I thought I’d go for an ‘arty’ title with this one. Today at around lunch time, snow came to Nagano in a big way. If you didn’t see it, take a look at my post from yesterday, because these pictures honestly look like they came from a different season.
As usual I will put my favourites up here and write captions, the rest are in the photo archive.
This is the view from my window. It sure beats the skyscrapers and roads I usually see. The snow came really fast – I remember looking out the window and there being no snow, then I took this photo about ten minutes later. Since I didn’t get a white Christmas this year (or much of a Christmas at all. Santa doesn’t work in Asia, apparently) a white New Year’s was extra nice.
This is the line that runs through the area. The trains only come once an hour, so they’re not quite as handy as the ones in Tokyo, but at least people here can actually hear themselves think rather than just get told to stand behind the yellow line the whole time.
This is Kaizujyou (Matsushirojyou) castle. Inside is a really wide and open courtyard. It was quite a surprise really that there was no building inside, but it added to the ‘wide’ feeling of Nagano. I like the feeling of being able to swing my arms without hitting three people, eight buildings and then getting arrested.
Ducks of the moat around Kaizujyou castle. They were too busy swimming around to pose for any photos, though.
So yeah! Snow! Awesome! Also tonight I’ll be sitting down with Mako’s family to eat traditional Japanese New Year’s food. Everyone keeps telling me it’s ‘unique’, I choose to understand that to be a good thing.
Anyway, thanks for reading! As I mentioned all the photos are in the photo archive.
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That looks like a nice place to go visit. The wife and I have been thinking about making a trip out there early next year to visit some family and whatnot, so maybe we can squeeze in a trip to 買い頭上, too :)
According to Mako, it’s 海津城. But yeah I totally recommend it!