Sapporo Snow Festival on Hokkaido
Sapporo Snow Festival on Hokkaido
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Sapporo Snow Festival on Hokkaido
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최종수정일 / 2010년 02월 03일
In the coldest month of the year, the hottest ticket in Japan, and perhaps the whole world, is for the Sapporo Snow holiday on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido. The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan's largest and most distinctive winter events, attracts a growing number of visitors from Japan and abroad every year.   Every winter, about two million people come to Sapporo to see the hundreds of beautiful snow statues and ice sculptures which line Odori Park, the grounds at Community Dome Tsudome, and the main street in Susukino.  For seven days in February, these statues and sculptures(both large and small) turn Sapporo into a winter dreamland of crystal-like ice and white snow.

The festival is thought to be an opportunity for promoting international relations.   International Snow Sculpture Contest has been held at the Odori Park site since 1974, and 14 teams from various regions of the world participated in 2008.

The subject of the statues varies and often features an event, famous building or person from the previous year.  And every year the number of statues displayed is around 400 in total.  The best place to view the creations is from the TV Tower at the Odori Park site.  Most of the statues are illuminated in the evening. The Sapporo Snow Festival Museum is located in the Hitsujigaoka observation hill in Toyohira-ku, and displays historical materials and media of the festival.

The Snow Festival began in 1950, when six local high school students built six snow statues in Odori Park.  In 1955, the Japan Self-Defense Forces from the nearby Makomanai base joined in and built the first massive snow sculptures, for which the Snow Festival has now become famous.  Several snow festivals existed in Sapporo prior to the Sapporo Snow Festival, however, all of these were suspended during World War II.

The Snow holiday is truly a community effort, with voter’s groups both creating ice sculptures and helping tourists, particularly the disabled.  They also provide traveller info and act as interpreters for the flood of foreign guests.  Hotel reservations for the Snow festival should be made at least six months in advance.

If you enjoy traveling and would like to read more on some of the most famous places in the world, visit famouswonders.com.

2010 January 20th,
By reporter Choi Jung-in
hakboji@donga.ac.kr


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