Festival Sports event Hokkaidō Take yourself to a magical winter wonderland up in the cold north of Japan. The annualSapporo Snow Festivalpromises a bonanza of whimsical snow and ice sculptures — including life-sized buildings, and recreations of palaces, castles, and famous monuments. While 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.
Held in early February every year, the Sapporo Snow Festival started in 1950 and became bigger and bigger and nowadays is one of the top tourist attractions in Japan during Winter time. Before 2020 the festival was welcoming over 2 million visitors from Japan and abroad and now is back again!
visitors an immersive experience of an icy world. At Fureai Square, you can touch or ride on the ice sculptures, and this illumination street serves as an ultimate photography spot. Warm yourself at the Ice Bar with a hot drink, another must-do activity of the Sapporo Snow Festival. ...
If you’re only going to do one thing this winter in Japan, you have to experience theSapporo Yuki Matsurior Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido. Held once a year over a week in February, this festival celebrates the abundance of snow in Japan’s north by creating huge, breathtaking snow sc...
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
Alessandra de Rossi and Empoy Marquez 2017's "Kita Kita" also highlighted another area of Japan -- Sapporo which is the capital of the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido and it is famous for its beer, skiing, and annual Sapporo Snow Festival featuring enormous ice sculptures. Vaca...
also known as the Swan Castle, is being recreated with the cooperation of the German National Tourist Office and the Bavarian State Delegation to Japan, the skills of the Third Snow Sculpture Production Committee of the Sapporo Snow Festival Snow Sculpture Production Committee, and the enthusiasm of...
The Festival of Snow and Ice held in early February every year at a few places, one of them is Odori Park, where sculptures made of snow and ice are exhibited. This is one of the biggest events held in Hokkaido, about 2 million people visit from all over Japan as well as from all ...
The festival is one of Japan’s largest and most typical winter events. In 2007 (58th Festival), about two million people visited Sapporo to see the hundreds of floating statues and ice sculptures at the Odori Park and Susukino sites, in central Sapporo, and at the Satoland site. The fes...