The Sapporo Snow Festival is held during one week every February in Hokkaido's capital Sapporo. It is one of Japan's most popular winter events, featuring spectacular snow and ice sculptures. Some of the festival's sites also offer other forms of entertainment like snow slides and snow rafting...
Located at the meeting point of France, Switzerland, and Italy, the sprawling Chamonix resort is home to a new gondola and some of the best and liveliest après-ski spots in the world. Toss back a drink on the terrace of Chambre Neuf inside the Langley Hotel Gustavia or visit one of the...
As much as you might avoid visiting Hokkaido in winter, Odori Park is at its most intriguing during theSapporo Snow Festival. In this annual 7-day celebration, snow & ice sculptures emerge at a handful of sites around Sapporo, creating a lovely winter wonderland scene. Odari Park is the b...
Sitting 100km to the north-east of the resort, Sapporo is Hokkaido’s largest city and the fifth largest in Japan. Having hosted the Winter Olympic Games in 1972, Sapporo is proud of its winter heritage, something it celebrates each year during its famous Snow Festival each February – see ...
Winnie Tan is a freelance writer living in Tokyo whose specialties are travel, lifestyle and Japanese culture. Why Jōgashima? Located south of tourist hotspots likeKamakuraand Enoshima, Jōgashima tends to fall under the radar of Tokyo day trippers. On days when I need a reprieve from the ci...
Mike wanted to see my favorite places in Kyoto and I have to say my favorite was Kinkaku-ji, a Zen Buddhist temple known as the Temple of the Golden Pavilion; it is one of 17 World Cultural Heritage sites in Kyoto. It is also one of the most popular buildings in Japan, second only...
The world’s largest salt desert, located in Bolivia’s high-altitude plateau, is becoming a luxury outpost. When to go: May—the tail end of the wet season and the beginning of the dry season—is an ideal month to visit: The flats, located in sou...
Like any big city in Japan, Sapporo is serious about its food & drink. The culinary pleasures here are plentiful, none more justifiably famous than the city’s famous miso ramen. Sapporo also gave birth to Japan’s beer industry with its namesake brew still staking claim among the world’s...
This modern hotel is located right above(!) the Shinjuku train station and offers an excellent view of Tokyo. It is easy to get here from the Airport using the Narita Express train, and it is a perfect place from which to explore Shinjuku and the rest of Tokyo. ...
Japan’s snow season has also given rise to a number of snow festivals. TheSapporo Snow Festivalis one of the most popular, featuring enormous, detailed snow and ice sculptures. Winter illumination during Sapporo Snow Festival In February, theOtaru Snow Light Pathbathes the city of Otaru in ro...