20-year-old women dressed in kimono walk on a snow covered street to attend a coming-of-age ceremony in Tokyo on January 14, 2013. A storm system grasped central Japan on January 14, causing heavy snow fall around the Japanese capital. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
Tokyo and snow to not go together. This city has no idea how to deal with snow when it comes. There are no plows, sanding or salting capabilities. Most people, including me do not own snow shovels, window scrapers and the standard tools I had to survive my winter growing up in New England.