Snow Hachiko

Many people know the story of faithful Hachiko, the dog who always went to Shibuya station in Tokyo to greet his master after work, and who continued to go there every day to wait for him for nine years after the man died. There's a bronze statue of Hachiko by Shibuya station now.

Well, on February 5, Tokyo got snow that--unusually for Tokyo--stuck. And in Shibuya station, someone made a friend for Hachiko:

Photo by Tokyo photographer 清水哲朗; gobiguma on Twitter (original tweet here)


This photo courtesy of Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper


We can imagine the statue and the snow dog came alive in the wee hours of the morning and romped and played, dark dog and pale one. I'm sure the spirit of actual Hachiko is pleased.