Winter trees

Winter trees

Tree-lined avenue in winter

Winter Park

Winter Park

Winter road

Winter light awn

Autumn Park

Snow art

Winter parks and towers

Winter coast

Winter coast

Winter road

Ishikari Lighthouse in winter

Night view when camping in winter at Lake Motosu in Yamanashi Prefecture

Annual Nabana no Sato Illumination ^ ^ It's beautiful and I never ✨ get tired of it.

Osechi I thought there were many wonderful traditions and cultures in Japan. These are our New Year's dishes. It was such a day that I felt happy about such a tradition that I would make myself someday. I wish you a wonderful year for all Japan.

Layered Hisaya Odori Park! Beautifully lit TV tower ^ ^ There was ✨ a new store.

Osechi I thought there were many wonderful traditions and cultures in Japan. These are our New Year's dishes. It was such a day that I felt happy about such a tradition that I would make myself someday. I wish you a wonderful year for all Japan.

It is a piece in a traditional hot spring town in Japan. As the snow flickered, the steam from the hot springs also gushed out, and the seasonal flavors and sightseeing spots blended well.

Sunrise in Biei The weather forecast was bad, so I was prepared for it, but I could see a little sunny, so I used a slow shutter.

Morning Mist no Tancho Crane @ Otowa Bridge I bought a ticket for Hokkaido because I wanted to go here. There were many people even though it was the end of the year. It was a warm winter, but we managed to generate river fog.

Located in Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture "Shirahama Beach" The snow was half dry!

Tsuruga Castle in Fukushima! I'd heard of its white walls before, but it looks like winter is doing its best to make it completely white! Apparently Tsuruga Castle was designed after Kurokawa Castle that was sieged some time during the 1,500's. I wonder if the color scheme is true to Kurokawa Castle. It'd be interesting to know if there was some sort of tactical reason for an all-white castle. In a snowy region I could see it acting as a sort of camouflage but who knows. You can also barely see what looks like a shachihoko on the roof if you zoom in which is pretty neat. Apparently the inside of the castle has some mannequins set up with guns showing how the arrow-slits, or in this case gun-slits, would have been used. There's also other mannequins that show them being used for rock dropping as well. Warfare has come a long way since then?

This is Tsuruga Castle in Fukushima Prefecture! It was even whiter from the snow and it was beautiful!

This is Ouchi-juku, Fukushima Prefecture!

Wow, that looks amazing. French food is usually already really pretty but with the Japanese touch it's really something else. I really like that you can see the Japanese twist with things like the small ramen/chashu dish and the food carving that seems to be a specialty of Japan. I was watching Grand Maison Tokyo last year with my girlfriend and it was really cool watching what the French cuisine industry might look like in Japan and I guess just the top of the food industry in general. I haven't had French cuisine much lately myself (I'm more of an Italian kind of guy), but maybe once valentines day comes around I'll make a dinner reservation. To be fair this Craftale place actually seems pretty affordable considering what they're offering. A fancy dinner course for ¥10,000 is quite reasonable.

This is a photo of Ouchi-juku in Fukushima Prefecture. I was impressed by the beauty of the snow that piled up on the old-fashioned house.

It's like a winter wonderland! Looks really cold though lol. I'd seen on the news how bad the snow was getting in parts of Akita, especially Yokote but it looks like it's just cold everywhere this year. The plus side is Japan has a lot of beautiful scenery so when the snow starts to pile up like this it makes for some beautiful photography (like we're seeing here). I really like this photo though, you can practically hear how quiet and cold it is. It almost makes me want to get outside and go camping with a big ol' campfire and a heavy duty tent. I know my girlfriend would never agree to go though to a place with this much snow though ?Hope everyone is staying safe from the cold! Be sure to take some photos of the beautiful scenery while you can though. No snow here in Tokyo though (unfortunately??).