The main city of Sapporo makes the most of this with its annual Snow Festival, which has grown since 1950 into a major draw for tourists and festival participants from throughout Japan and all ...

SAPPORO—Amid towering ... “What is grown in Hokkaido tastes best when it is consumed in Hokkaido,” he said. The buns will be sold at the Odori 8-chome HTB Snow Square venue of the festival ...

These days, Sapporo is best known for its neighboring epic ski resorts—and for organizing the annual Sapporo Snow Festival each February (which just wrapped its 70th anniversary). But despite ...

but with economic growth and the technology to make snow and ice we’ve come a long way," said Akimoto, also the mayor of Sapporo. "Now there are indoor ski slopes in the Middle East and indoor ...

SAPPORO—A cool reproduction of the Catbus and sisters Satsuki and May in popular anime “My Neighbor Totoro” won the top prize in the citizen sculpture event at the 2023 Sapporo Snow Festival.