If the news is to be believed, Tokyo received the heaviest snowfall in over four decades last weekend, with as much as 27 cm landing on the capital by Saturday evening. I can’t remember seeing so much snow since I was a child.
![Trudging through the snow](https://randomwire.com/wp-content/uploads/tokyo-snow1-1024x1024.jpg)
I spent much of the day freezing my extremities watching shopkeepers shovelling in vain, kids building rotund snowmen (雪だるま) and busses equipped with snow chains sliding by.
![Hotel Chinzanso Under Snow](https://randomwire.com/wp-content/uploads/flickr_backup/12433686835_d466eed878_b.jpg)
In the evening I wandered along the Kanda river (神田川) to Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo (椿山荘) which has a beautiful garden filled with historic monuments and is open to the public.
![Snowy Stairway](https://randomwire.com/wp-content/uploads/flickr_backup/12433689555_a7780dd292_b.jpg)
Founded in 1877, the garden was named Chinzan-so (椿山荘) or “House of Camellia” after the numerous camellia flowers that blossomed here.
![Hotel Chinzanso Garden](https://randomwire.com/wp-content/uploads/flickr_backup/12433694475_3d32397057_b.jpg)
There are over thirty stone lanterns scattered throughout the site including some rather more modern ones which illuminate the many pathways at night.
![Snowed Under](https://randomwire.com/wp-content/uploads/flickr_backup/12434185724_81ab080d0e_b.jpg)
It’s an atmospheric spot at any time and someone else managed to get some nice shots in the snow earlier in the day.
![ゆきだるま](https://randomwire.com/wp-content/uploads/tokyo-snow4-1024x1024.jpg)
Apparently, more snow is due tomorrow so perhaps we’ll have another white weekend ☃
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