Posts Tagged ‘Festival’

• The Korakuen Hotel Sapporo offers four-star accommodations

  Date: 2010.01.17 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

  In the coldest month of the year, the most up to date ticket in Japan, and perhaps the whole world, is for the Sapporo Snow festival on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido.  More than two million visitors from across the world descend on.  Hokkaido’s capital to watch it modified into the lustrous, glittering, and glistening world of an ice-cold fairyland. 

  For a week each February, the skyscrapers of Sapporo become upstaged by edifices and statues of frozen snow forming a second town in Odori Park and the streets at their feet.  Ice sculptures of the past have depicted everything from traditional Eastern temples, samurais, and dragons to recent sportsmen, ice maidens, political figures, and fifty-foot high dinosaurs. 

  The current Snow Festival is the descendant of a way smaller 1950 festival, the effort of a grouping of Sapporo high school students who built six snow statues in Odori Park and so impressed the park’s visitors the custom continued.  Five years later, the Japan Self-Defense Forces housed at Makomanai base introduced, as a training exercise, the technique for building the enormous snow sculptures characteristic of the Snow festival today. 

  The Snow festival Venues
  Makomanai Base is now one of the 3 main venues for the holiday, and is the location of the biggest sculptures ; the third site, where the ice carving competition is held, is in Sapporo’s Susukino district.  During the 1972 Winter olympic games in Sapporo, the Snow holiday gained global commend, and the Snow Statue Competition commenced two years after. 

  The Snow holiday is truly a community effort, with citizen’s groups both creating ice sculptures and assisting tourists, especially the disabled.  They also provide tourist information and act as interpreters for the flood of foreign guests.  Hotel reservations for the Snow holiday should be made at least 6 months ahead. 

  hostels near the Snow festival
  The Korakuen Hotel Sapporo offers four-star accommodations convenient to all of Sapporo’s parks and lovely areas, and is ideally situated for commercial travelers.

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