It did not stop snowing, but it turned out to be a fresh blanket of snow that created this Narnia-like backdrop!

There is so much story behind every photo (and I took over 500 photos) from Japan. All I can say here is that it's a country I will come back to! In a week, I visited Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo. Of course, I went to see Harry Potter's World in Osaka. And few of the ancient shrines and temples in Kyoto (too bad we missed the maiko (geisha apprentice) and Geiko (geisha in Kyoto dialect) in Kyoto's legendary Gion district). But we did have an absolutely delish kaiseki (similar