Sapporo Snow Festival

2 days after we came back from 90F sunny Phuket, we were off to 20F snowy Sapporo, Hokkaido.

I've wanted to go to the Snow Festival in Sapporo for a while but was never in Japan during it (first weekend of February). Finally had the opportunity to go this year and it was amazing. I was in awe staring at all the sculptures and the beautiful winter scenery.

62nd Snow Festival

Sapporo TV Tower

Ice Slides

The amazing snow sculptures. The details were insane.

Aside from the larger sculptures, there were tons of smaller ones like these.

サザエさん！

You can see how huge these sculptures are when people are standing in front of it.

Lion King

They also had tons of gourmet food stands.

Down Susukino (an area about 2 stops away from the Snow Festival), they had beautiful ice sculptures on display.

Another ice sculpture.

Ice Sculptures are lit up at night.

ひな人形

Coolest smoking space ever.