The Sapporo snow festival started in 1950. According to the official website, it began when local junior high and high school students set up snow sculptures in Odori Park. Afterwards, the Self ...

Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido and ... “The creation of the five iconic large snow sculptures alone involves approximately 9,000 people. Additionally, venue security necessitates ...

If you’re unfamiliar with the Sapporo Snow Festival, it first started in 1950 and for decades, has been allowing builders to create snow sculptures in Odori Park. For the very first event ...

An iconic annual snow festival kicked off in Sapporo on Tuesday, featuring a total of 202 snow and ice sculptures at three venues. The Sapporo Snow Festival will run until Feb. 11. Five giant snow ...

The annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido's largest city kicked off an elaborate weeklong affair Tuesday, featuring a multitude of ice and snow sculptures, attractions and food for ...

SAPPORO—The Sapporo Snow Festival ... Full-scale production for the snow sculptures continued from Jan. 7 to Feb. 2. During that 27-day period, 21 days, or nearly 80 percent of the total ...

SAPPORO, Feb 5 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- The annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido's largest city kicked off as an elaborate weeklong affair on Feb 4, featuring a multitude of ice and snow sculptures, ...

Snow sculptures are lit up at Odori Park in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Tuesday, the opening day of the Sapporo Snow Festival. The annual festival features a multitude of ice and snow sculptures, ...

As Tomonori Aoyama, Director General for Sapporo City Tourism & MICE Promotion ... "Creating large snow sculptures is a big challenge. There are more and more things we must think about every ...

People carve a lump of snow into the shape of a human face in the "Citizen's Snow Sculptures" area in Odori Park, in Sapporo's Chuo Ward in this Jan. 31, 2017, file photo. (Mainichi/Koichiro ...

SAPPORO, Japan, Jan. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 ...