We also realised that snow in a city is not half as pleasant as in a quiet country town.
The traffic turns the snow on the street into brown sludge and the streets are very slippery until they have been cleared properly - but it's still quite exciting.
After breakfast, we headed off to Shinosaka - just outside Osaka.
Jane decided to blend in with the locals - about 50% of whom wear these facemasks - either to stop spreading their germs or to stop catching other peoples, I'm not quite sure.
We all fell about laughing though.
After reaching the hotel, Jim and I headed off to Kyoto to visit a wonderful temple complex - over 1300 years old.
It was up a winding road full of interesting shops and while we were there, it started snowing again.
It was fairly light snow but it made the place more magical.
The menu provided great entertainment. I had "hotpot of the eggplant and the mozzarella" and Jane had "the mixture pizza". Some other highlights were "chips of the anchovy flavour" and the piece de resistance was "height of fruit alignment". We couldn't even begin to imagine what that was!
The hotel is an interesting mixture of a modern lobby, restaurant, lift and corridor - and then a room that looked like it hadn't been updated since the 1960's - but at least there were beds!
We are all heartily sick of futons.
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