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Skiers and snowboarders enjoy the breathtaking view of “Juyo”, known as snow monsters, in the Zao mountain chain, which on January 27, which overtakes the border between Yamagata and Miyagi prefectures (Wataru Sekita) (Wataru Sekita).
An icy winter has transformed the high trees of the Zao mountain chain into wonderful snow sculptures, which are known as “Juhhyo” or “snowmonster”, and the conditions are now perfect to see them.
On January 27th, tourists like to take photos in addition to the highly towering ice formations and stroll through the frosty landscape.
Skiers and snowboarders slowed their descents and recorded the breathtaking winter landscape.
They form Juhyo when moisture and snow in the air, cooled by northwestern seasonal winds, freeze freezing on the Aomori firs that grow in clusters over the ZAO mountain chain that cross the border between Yamagata and Miyagi prefectures.
According to the Zao ropeway, snow -blusters usually take shape at the end of December, but the strong snowfall of this season led to growing it earlier and larger than usual.
Clear days are rare in winter, whereby only two or three days a month offer ideal conditions for looking at Juhhyo.
“It's not always sunny, so it's just perfect today. I don't want to go, ”said Junichi Muroi, 56.
Muroi, who is Zao has been visiting the Juhhyo from the Prefecture of Tochigi for years and enjoying the hot springs.
The 31-year-old FU Shi-Xiang, who comes from Taiwan and works in Japan, learned something about Zao about social media and decided for the first time.
He had checked the weather for two weeks and weighed his decision until the day before.
With the clear weather, he said: “I was surprised to see so many Taiwanese tourists in the cable car line” when he held his camera.