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Originally Posted by Kanji_The_Wanderer
Interesting! Very interesting! I've never heard of Hashimoto City.
That's too bad you didn't get to visit Mount Fuji. I would have loved to see some photos taken by that great resolution camera you got there. ^_^
Since you don't have any photos from Hokkaido, do you have any pictures of shrines/forests/ temples in the snow?
I hope you got some snow-covered photos, if you were living at that city for two years, I'm sure you got something.
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Actually, it never really snowed in Hashimoto. We had a bit of slushy hail/snow/rain 1 or 2 days, but it melted quickly and wasn't very impressive at all. The north of Japan and the Japan Sea side (facing Korea) get most of the snow because the arctic winds come down out of Siberia, pick up moisture over the Japan Sea, and drop it there before coming over the Japan Alps. The Pacific side of Japan doesn't get much snow, though the higher elevations do get some (it snowed a bit on Koya-san, I heard). It was still very cold there during winter (compared to California, where I'm from), but it wasn't wet enough to really snow much after crossing the Alps. Similarly, Tokyo and Osaka tend not to get much if any snow either, while Kanazawa and other cities north of the Japan Alps get a lot more snow.