we drive to wakayama on the end of january 2021, from Izumisano City in Osaka it was a beautiful sunny day, we thought perfect to walk in the mountains, ( as first timers in japan weather and not familiar with the region, and ofcourse didnt do research, we drive all the way to Mount koyasan, along the way we have seen the white caps on the mountains we thought that snow have not melted in the mountain yet, we didnt realized that mt koyasan and okunuin cementery itself are blanketed in snow and that snow is the heaviest in december to january hence we got stuck in the snow, and not properly geared to snow at all, we have manually push pur car out of the icy road ( we needed the help of the locals who are working on the clearing of the roads, we have not seen a lot in this visit as we were rushing to go back , despite our attempt to escape the snow we didnt manage so we ended up waiting for tow trucks!
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