Carve out time to visit Sapporo's annual snow festival ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival has long been a part of Japan’s winter culture, routinely offering creative artists the opportunity to use the snow to create some wild pieces of art. As the anime industry ...

SAPPORO, Japan — A new class of aircraft carrier — one carved from snow — is appearing at the 74th annual Sapporo Snow Festival, a world-renowned stage in Japan for cold weather sculptors. A team of U ...

Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido and the fifth-largest city in the country. As Japan’s most northern island, Hokkaido boasts pristine wilderness, home to endangered Steller's sea eagle, brown ...

For the third year in a row, a snow sculpture of a Gundam will appear at the Sapporo Snow Festival. There will also be a special Gundam booth at Tsudome, with activities like a photo spot and the ...

The 75th Sapporo Snow Festival will be held on February 4 - 11, 2025, in the City of Sapporo, Japan’s Northern Capital. As one of the world’s largest snow sculpture festivals, the city will be ...

The snowy capital of the island of Hokkaido offers a quieter alternative to Japan’s congested “Golden Route” of Tokyo, Osaka ...

The snow sculpture will feature a large bust of the Rising Freedom Gundam. The Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom logo will also appear on the panel. Bandai Namco will also set up a merchandise booth ...

It was never my intention to play charades naked on a hotel roof, with an equally naked Japanese pensioner, in the middle of a gale-force blizzard. That's just how things turned out. I was travelling ...

Frosty competition heats up in Odori Park as snow-artists carve out their place in history. In Sapporo’s Odori Park, the wind is howling, the temperature is minus 7c and snow is blowing horizontally.

Sapporo, Japan, Feb. 12, 2011: Hundreds of interesting snow and ice sculptures like this one dot the streets of downtown Sapporo, Japan, during the city’s annual snow festival. Wondering if there are ...