Sapporo Snow Festival
babibubebo | 9 02 2007If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting and enjoy the photos from Japan!
The 2008 Sapporo Snow Festival will be held in Sapporo (of course) from February 5th until the 11th. Basically the Sapporo Snow Festival is a showcase of huge and amazing snow and ice sculptures. I have been to many festivals in Japan and can honestly say that most of them do not live up to their hype, but the Sapporo Snow Festival is one of the few that does…if you can bare the cold weather!
I actually went a few days before it started and left on the second day because it was a lot cheaper to do it that way. I suggest doing it this way not only because it is cheaper, but also because most of the big ones are (almost) done anyway and you can also see how they are made.
Of course it seems whenever I go to Hokkaido I am really unlucky with the weather because on the first day I was it it was so warm that it was raining and almost ruined a lot of the sculptures. The main part of the snow festival is in Odori Park but there 2 other places to check out, Sato Land and Susukino. I have a different post about the ice sculptures and ice bars in Susukino.
At the Odori Park site, the big sculptures a lot of times are used as stages for different perfomances throughrout the festival. As you can see below, they even built a (not so) small jump for skiers and snowboarders to do some tricks.
On a side note, if you are looking for something else to do because maybe you are arriving before the Sapporo Snow Festival starts or staying after it ends, you may want to check out the smaller and lesser known Chitose Ice Festival.
Check out more photos after the jump or check out a video of some performances and other happenings at the Sapporo Snow Festival.
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haha, thanks for stopping by T! Glad you liked
babibubebo | 2 02 2008haha, thanks for stopping by T! Glad you liked the photos!
Amazing pictures, and another incentive to make a trip up
Nick Ramsay | 5 02 2008Amazing pictures, and another incentive to make a trip up to Hokkaido.
Thanks Nick! Yes, I strongly recommend you taking a
babibubebo | 7 02 2008Thanks Nick! Yes, I strongly recommend you taking a trip up to Hokkaido if you haven’t already…
nice festival and the shots too. hats off to the
villas in Florence | 15 02 2008nice festival and the shots too. hats off to the creators.
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