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Japan Snowfields

Sunrise lights up Mt Myōkō a dormant volcano that lasted erupted about 6000 years ago. Ski tracks on the lower slopes of Miyoko-Kogen. A Chalet half-buried in fresh now on the lower slopes of Miyoko-kogen. Hotel at the base of the Akakura Ski Resort in Myoko Kogen Dave waits in the lantern light outside a restaurant in Myoko Kogen Petrol-powered snow-blower outside a home in Myoko Kogen Making a call from the phone booth outside Casa Midori A reproduction of Takada Castle- built in Joetsu during the era of the Tokugawa shogunate in the 17th Century. Vending machines and buildings half-buried in Myoko Kogen Portrait of a young Japanese Macaque bathing in a thermal spring at Jidokudani. These Macaque populations in Nagano represent the northern most limit for primates (apart from humans). Japanese Macaques can survive winter temperatures of below -15 °C and the ones in Jidokudani spend daylight around the thermal baths before sheltering overnight in cliffs nearby. The Nozawa-Onsen town receives, on average, more than 14 meters of snow each winter. Water from thermal springs is pumped to the surface to melt the snow and keep the roads clear. On the left is the entrance to one of more than a dozen public 'onsen' (thermal baths).

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