A person admires the lights that re-create a raft of blossoms by shining pink light on the snow on a castle moat and cherry blossom trees, in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, on Feb. 5, 2025.

Tourists shelter from the wind in an alcove of a snow covered tree, nicknamed a 'snow monster' on January 19, 2019 on Mount Zao near Yamagata, Japan. Carl Court / Getty Images Strangely shaped ...

The icy trees at 1,454-meter-high Mount Moriyoshi are said to be one of the three major snow monster sites in Japan along with Mount Hakkoda in Aomori Prefecture and the Zao mountain range in ...

They look forward to snow in the winter so they can enjoy sekku, translated as "snow blossoms". Sekku refers to the way snow gracefully accumulates on trees, other plants, stones and gravel.