The 2024 Sapporo Snow Festival runs until Sunday, February 11. Thanks go to local English teacher Basil Villacortes Sali for kind permission to use his photographs of the exhibition.

Snow sculptures created by locals include one of Hokkaido native Haruka Kitaguchi, who won gold in the women's javelin throwing in the 2024 Paris ... The first Sapporo Snow Festival was held in ...

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, ...

With adventure tourism and the Sapporo Snow Festival as huge draws, summer and autumn have also become popular times to visit for both domestic and inbound tourists. ... Hokkaido 2024: Looking ...

After almost cancelling a popular annual snow festival due to unseasonable January warmth, record-breaking snowfall has hit Japan ’s northern main island of Hokkaido, disrupting traffic, causing ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival is the pinnacle of all winter festivals held in Japan. Founded in 1950, it celebrates the natural beauty and joy found in abundance in Japan’s northern capital.

A snow sculpture of Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani is covered with snow at the Sapporo Snow Festival, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Credit: AP ...