Winter in Tokyo...

I really do hate the winter in Tokyo... Ok, to be completely straight, it's not that cold really, it can go below 0C degrees during the night, but that is quite unusual. It can snow, but this is also quite rare and hasn't happened so far this year and it anyway melts as soon as it hits the ground. During winter the sky is blue and the sun is often shining unlike the summer months when you rarely see a blue sky at all, more kinda foggy and grey...

The problem here in Japan in winter is that the houses are not built to keep warmth in... It's not very nice to come home after a relatively cold day (say 7C degrees for the sake of it), open the door and feel that it's colder inside than outside... Ok, sure, there are heating devices here in Japan, but electricity is extremely expensive and it's nothing you want to keep going while you're at work, it would just cost too much...

One day I came home after buying some groceries on the way home from work, opening the refrigerator to put the stuff in there and realizing that it feels warm inside the refrigerator... The 8C degrees inside there was warmer than the temperature inside the room...

Ok, it's kinda cozy when lying in bed with plenty of blankets so the cold can be kept away, but you don't want to wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom... From experience I can tell you that a cold toilet-seat wake you up!

But it's soon March and things will start to warm up at least!