This year’s winter season in Japan has been marked with severe, blisteringly cold weather, as well as some of the harshest winds in history blowing throughout the regions of the country. The past few weeks have been particularly cold, and while most people preferred to stay inside in their kotatsu with a cup of hot tea, Japanese Twitter users couldn’t afford to lose the opportunity to build some awesome snow figures.

Ghibli Snow Art!

Blastoise

Japanese Hi-Tech Toilet

So. Much. Snow.