Today is a holiday in Japan.
It’s 「成人の日」(“Coming of Age Day” or “Adults Day”).
In Japan, twenty years old is the legal age of adulthood.
The drinking and voting age is 20 in Japan.
On the second Monday of January (today), twenty-year-olds in Japan dress in kimono and attend a special ceremony.
My oldest daughter will do it next year!
I can’t believe how fast they grow up!
Anyway, every winter in Tokyo it usually snows once or twice.
It’s snowing today!
The weather had been so nice everyday recently and then, on the day that so many people dressed up for a special day, the weather went downhill.
I feel sorry for them!
I hope the weather is nice on this day next year and the following two years … for my daughters’ ceremonies!
Tokyo Five 
It seldom snowed when I was stationed in Japan, 1953-1956, but some did fall. I was in Sendai and our camp was where Tohoku University is now located across the Hirose River in Sendai.
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I can’t believe it hardly snowed that far north in the three years you were in Japan!
I have to ask, though … is your name really Abraham Lincoln?
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I used to live in Utah for five and a half years. That is in the mountain west of America. There is a lot of snow there. I am back in Florida now, so I am missing it. I checked the other day and Tokyo is about 5.5 degrees more north in latitude than where I live in Florida. This may help explain why it gets a little cold and windy here, but snow is rare.
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It was cold enough in Tokyo to snow again today … but, thankfully, it didn’t; it was a nice, clear, sunny day.
I’m glad … because I went up to the Tokyo Sky Tree today.
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Reblogged this on Kasseru-san's Slow Boat to Japan and commented:
The kimonos are so beautiful and elegant.
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Thanks again
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What a day for them! Hm.. it must be pretty dangerous for them to walk in their zori.
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Yeah, they have to walk carefully.
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Pretty! It snowed here in Dallas today! And it also snowed on Christmas Day, which was a lot of fun. The last time it snowed on Christmas Day here was in 2008. Then it melted pretty quickly, but this time, it stayed cold and lasted for three days.
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Is there a lot of snow on the ground?
Snow looks pretty…but I’m glad that it doesn’t snow too much in Tokyo!
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getting snow once or twice a year would be perfect for me! I usually miss it at Christmas but don’t even think about it the rest of the year! Cold snowy days always made me want to curl up in front of a fire, in a fireplace, of course, & read a good book.
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> getting snow once or twice a year would be perfect for me!
How often does it snow there?
> I usually miss it at Christmas
I’m glad that it doesn’t usually snow in Tokyo at Xmas time … since that day is a workday in Japan!
If it’s gonna snow, I’d like it be on a day that I don’t have to go anywhere (like last Monday 🙂 )
>a fireplace
Do you have a fireplace?
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No, not a lot…not anything like Albany! A few inches, and it has melted already.
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>it has melted already.
That’s good!
Most of the snow has melted away here too … but not all of it yet.
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The snow is pretty,esp the first snow fall. I can’t say that we miss it though, we are enjoying the beautiful weather in Florida. The girls look so beautiful in their kimonos (is that spelled correctly?).
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Yes, those kimono are beautiful … especially with the winter collar.
Kimono are so expensive … even to rent!
It’s too bad it snowed on their special day!
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HI, What a heavy snow , we have !
I hope so , too .
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It seems to have stopped snowing.
I’m glad.
I have to work tomorrow … I don’t want a train delay!
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Me, too .
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Yeah. A snowy weekend isn’t so bad… it’s when it’s snowing and I have to go to work that I don’t like.
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