Sapporo’s snow festival is a major tourism magnet for Japan’s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. But unusually warm weather has kept the snow away, forcing organizers to source snow from ...

Anime Takes Over 2024 Sapporo Snow Festival With Gundam, Ghibli, and More Life-sized snow sculptures of some of your favorite anime have hit Japan to celebrate the winter.

Every year, tens of thousands of tourists flock to the snow festival in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, attracted by some 200 large, but intricate ice sculptures. But this year, there's a ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival, Japan’s most famous winter event, has been cancelled once again. The event, which was going to kick off on February 5, was scheduled to be held on a smaller scale this ...

To secure a place at the Sapporo Snow Festival, Japan's greatest festival of ice - and pay the best possible price - book now and you'll find the welcome is as warm as a hot spring bath.

Sapporo Snow Festival 2020: Complete Guide to Japan's Most Famous Winter Festival! (February 4-11) One of the major events representing Hokkaido is the Sapporo Snow Festival (Yukimatsuri), held every ...

Darth Vader was the subject of one of hundreds of interesting snow and ice sculptures that dotted the streets of downtown Sapporo, Japan, during the city's annual snow festival in early February ...

Each February, the Japanese city of Sapporo becomes home to the world's most impressive display of snow sculptures. Here are 2018's best ones!

The 65th annual Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan's biggest winter events, opened in Sapporo, Japan on Wednesday. The week-long festival features 198 snow statues and expects to attract around ...