Japan for Winter Travelers & Snow Country Explorers

About this book

Two hundred snow journeys across winter Japan: arriving by snow-rail and night train, staying at snow pace in drifted towns, travelling out after dark to lantern lanes, kamakura and fire festivals, whole snow days that end in hot water, journeys to drift ice, snow monsters and diamond dust, slope and snow-play days from the traveller's side, journeys for the winter table — nabe, crab, snow-stored vegetables, the brewery in its season — and the deep-winter calendar from the New Year migration to the thaw. Each journey is shaped as a day a traveller can actually take — its shape, its day in the snow, its season, and how to plan it — and every entry closes by naming the official source that confirms what is current, so nothing in the book expires. Written and created in Japan.