Finally, a snow day

We woke up to a snowstorm on Friday, the first time we had more than a few flakes this winter, but by midmorning it seemed to be melting, and then it started raining. So that Greg might have a chance to stomp around in snow just once before the spring comes, we got on the Eizan train and headed upslope to Kurama.

Sure enough, it was still snowing further on up the line, and Greg had fun crunching through the snow up the road in Kurama. Yoshiko suggested that since we came all this way, we might as well go to the Kurama Onsen (hot spring) at the end of the road, so we did just that — an impromptu bath in a winter wonderland. It was the first time for me (and Greg) to bathe with snow falling on our shoulders, an experience I highly recommend. This is the view looking across the men’s bath across to the mountainside.