The Sapporo Snow Festival?

Question

Does anyone know any facts about the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan

Answer 1

Sapporo Snow Festival (Yuki Matsuri) takes places first week in February and lasts for a week. The following Monday they knocked down the structures. The next festival will begin Feb 6.

The Festival is over 50 years old and started with some local high school students making snow sculptures. Later the Japanese Self Defense Force got on board and began making the huge sculptures that are the signature piece of the festival.

The sculptures depict legendary events, historical persons and events, celebrities, and movies.

The snow sculptures with a few ice ones are placed in Odori Park starting at Sapporo Tower.

In the Sususkino entertainment area, they have a large number of ice sculptures. You can watch ice sculpturors as they work.

The festival is a great feast for the eyes. You can munch on grilled crab legs, scallops, chicken in ice-made food stalls and drink hot Irish Bailleys.

Nearby Otaru has a snow festival worth checking out at night:
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=275130&rel_no=1

Answer 2

The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan's largest 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 a large number of splendid snow and ice sculptures lining Odori Park, the grounds at Tsudome, and along the main street in Susukino.

For seven days in February, Sapporo is turned into a winter dreamland of crystal-like ice and white snow.The Snow Festival began in 1950, with six snow statues made by local high school students in Odori Park. In 1955, the Self-Defense Force joined in and made a massive snow sculpture, the kind for which the Snow Festival is now famous for. The Festival has grown from the humble beginning to become one of the biggest and most well known winter events.The Snow Festival is considered to be a festival of international-caliber.

Answer 3

I lived in Hokkaido for 2 years and also lived in Sapporo. The yukimatsuri, or ice festival is great. You can walk up and down the Odori Park and look at all the snow and ice sculpures. It is amazing stuff with real life sized buildings and carvings of famous buildings. Around the big government made snow buildings are various snow and ice sculptures done by various groups of school and so on. Its great fun. Its so cold that the statues are all outside but dont melt! There is a whole lot of music and sounds and people trying to pass out chirashi (flyers) and they have a free showbag that they give out which has the making of the snow structues and photos and pictures and stuff.
They close off the traffic so its safe and you cn walk freely throughout Odori Koen.
Earlier this year they had a big Narnia statue, and lots of cool stuff. They have alot of concerts on the ice/snow stages. It is all very beautiful... but bring your tissues, your nose may get a little sniffy. lol. A week later its all gone and you could never tell it was there in the first place. Magnificient stuff.

Answer 4

There are lots of people who would laugh at the possibility of altering their fates. This is due to the fact that it believes that nobody gets more that exactly what is put in his fate.

Answer 5

It is in Sapporo, there is a lot of snow, there are a lot of japanese people and it is cold as ****! All facts!

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo_Snow_Festival