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Well known by everyone who has ever watched the movie “My neighbor Totoro”, the Nekobus is a cat-bus (“Neko” is cat in Japanese) that can travel very fast on any type of terrain. One of the most fabulous means of transport that you can imagine. There are many Nekobus fans around the world, and some of them try to create Nekobuses replicas in the real world. Here are some pictures I found thanks to Google:

This is not a Nekobus but it is very “Ghibli”. I travelled using this bus when I went to the Ghibli Museum at Mitaka.

This is the original Nekobus.

I finished at this web and this web where you “Totoro Station” pictures. It seems there is a real bus station called “Totoro” somewhere in a little village at southern Japan.

“Totoro” bus station.

From 1876 when they started to gather weather data in Tokyo it snowed at least one time before February 10h every year. This year, it’s almost March and it didn’t snowed, and I don’t think it will do with 15-17 degrees that we are having these days. In order to be registered as “it snowed in Tokyo” it has to snow in a place called “Otemachi” at Tokyo’s city center, it didn’t happened for the first time in more than one hundred years.

Because of this warm weather Sakura and Ume flowers blossomed before expected. Japanese LOVE Sakura and Ume flowers, they will have conversation topic for next weeks “Is the global warming changing our Sakura season?”, “Was Sakura more beautiful in the old times?”.