Nozawa Onsen II

The snow in Nozawa Onsen was incredible. I have never seen so much. I'm talking about feet of snow. Sometimes I laughed out loud seeing cars and buildings so swamped with snow.

Special snow removing machines run on the roads to literally cut a path through the snow. They can't plow like New York City; there is too much snow. They use giant snow blowers attached to the front of dump trucks to carve the roadway.

I opened the window in my hotel room to get this shot.