The Sapporo Snow Festival official website delivers convenient and up-to-date information on events. The Sapporo Snow Festival is a festival of snow and ice held at Odori Park and other sites in the city of Sapporo. Here you can find the information you
The Sapporo Snow Festival 2025 will be held February 4 - 11, 2025 in Sapporo, Hokkaido. The impressive sculptures of ice and snow are lit up at night! Read to learn more about the highlights of this magnificent winter event.
We then headed to Susukino Site to admire the ice sculptures. These are smaller and occupy less space, but they are incredibly beautiful and well detailed. At this point while looking for a place to eat we also visited some of the temples and shrines in the area. Finally we went to the...
The day after the festival ends, bulldozers come to destroy the snow and ice art, while potentially quite sad, it is also an interesting sight to witness. Pro tip:Book other sightseeing activities in Sapporoto make the most of your time there. Or take advantage ofJR Hokkaidō’s rail pass...
The Sapporo Snow Festival is one of the most popular winter events in Japan. Each year millions of visitors travel to Hokkaido to admire the huge ice sculptures and enjoy the winter festivities. Here we explain everything you need to know before you go i
Located in Odori Park in the center of Sapporo, here you will find a fascinating world of snow and ice stretching across approximately 1.5 kilometers. You can enjoy a wealth of attractions such as the amazing huge snow sculptures, and much more! Again th
The Sapporo Snow Festival was started in 1950, when high school students built a few snow statues inOdori Park. It has since developed into a large, commercialized event, featuring spectacular snow and ice sculptures and attracting huge numbers of visitors. The festival is staged on three sites...
The annual Sapporo Snow Festival, a magnificent winter celebration turning the city into a paradise of complex ice and snow creations, perfectly illustrates this appeal. Attracting more than two million attendees annually, the festival has grown to be a pillar of Sapporo’s cultural calendar and a...
Day 5: Sapporo Snow Festival One of the highlights of visiting Sapporo in winter is the annual Sapporo Snow Festival, held in February. The festival features massive snow and ice sculptures, as well as food stalls, live performances, and various winter activities. Spend your day marveling...
breakfast buffet has one of the best + freshest Japanese varieties (minced tuna, yam porridge, tamago, seaweed, ramen, minced pork rice, mixed rice - our fav, natto, salmon, saba fish, tofu, fried chicken on certain days, potato/pumpkin soup, chicken stew, hokkaido milk/ice-cream, etc)...