Happy New Year!
We live in rather a warmer part of Japan. But we had snow this morning!



This is the scenary from the window of our apartment.

Makoto got excited. Trying to make a little snowman before breakfast.

On a new year's day we celebrate the start of another year with a special dish: rice cake soup. There are many ways to fix it according to localities, but basically it is the same: it has a rice cake (mochi) in a bowl of soup.