I went to Shirakawa-go UNESCO world heritage site in the Gifu mountains of Japan for xmas 2005.
It’s that picturesque village with A-Frame houses having thatched roofs.
I cannot even describe the amount of snow I witnessed, I don’t know exactly how much actually fell, but I remember the entire town was a snow maze at least two stories tall. The road that the bus drove us down there on had walls of snow at least 18 feet high. The town itself you couldn’t see the houses but there were roads carved between them and people at the very tops of their roofs with toboggans pushing 3 feet layers of snow off of the roofs. I lived in Sapporo Japan for a couple years after that, where 6 in would fall everyday at least.
People complain about snow where I live in Pittsburgh.
I tell them about Japan and they look at me in disbelief.
