Snow Monkey Park, the iconic pictures of Japanese macaques sitting relaxing in hot spring, was as good as it was advertised. It was so cold. Big snowflakes were hitting us from every direction. It took more than 40 minutes to walk from the parking lot to the monkey park entrance. The sign at the parking lot said 25 minutes; what a complete lie. You've got to be flying to make it over the snow, ice, slush, and other tourists to make it to the park in under half an hour.
We couldn't touch or feed the monkeys, but the furs looked soooo fluffy. The brown fur was great camouflage. Among the snowy landscape, I thought they were rocks. Until they moved, then I thought, did that rock just move?
The babies were so cute! Mommies and babies hugging together were simply precious.
However, we saw an attempted murder. One male monkey jumped over the hot spring and held down another male monkey into the hot spring. The one inside the water struggled and finally got away. The alleged murderer showed us his huge cajones. I didn't know snow monkeys were capable of murder, and they knew pushing another monkey down into water would work. 😨😱
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| Park Entrance Group Tickets ¥680 |
