Kofu

The weather agency's Kofu office is expected to make an official announcement on the exact date the snow fell.

The previous record of 26 October has been seen twice before in 1955 and 2016, Yutaka Katsuta, a forecaster at Kofu Local Meteorological Office told AFP.

Researchers successfully bred mice from freeze-dried sperm shipped 200 kilometers from Kyoto to Kofu on a postcard via standard mail delivery.

He was renting a small house in Kofu along with a friend of his, but his roommate was abroad so we were given our own room to sleep in.

Backpacks on our backs, we boarded an express train at Shinjuku Station bound for Matsumoto, and got off at Kofu.