Or, if you want to be really unique, snow toilets and urinals.
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Sensoji Temple, the Ghibli Museum, and Tokyo Disneyland are always worth a visit, but especially on snowy days like this.
Cinema fans might be reminded of a famous Ghibli anime and Godzilla film, but this is one time when real-life Japan is better than any movie magic.
Sure it’d be fine on an afternoon stroll, but how does it hold up against freezing winter winds?
Japan’s amazingly cozy heated tables combined with movie magic? Sounds like the perfect way to spend a winter day.
Cold weather along Japan’s northern coast assists in letting offender know what he did was not cool.
Wait, hot springs can freeze?
Ethereally romantic images remind us why a wintertime visit to a snow-covered onsen resort is extra special.
Spring can’t come soon enough for this employee on morning cleaning duty.
We sure hope that train’s heater is working.
One shinto shrine is making news around Japan for dressing their miko in a garment many had never seen before.
Mr. Sato continues to push his hypothesis that the male groin is the gateway to efficient regulation of body temperature, even if it means serious bodily harm.
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