The annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido's largest city kicked off an elaborate weeklong affair Tuesday, featuring a multitude of ice and snow sculptures, attractions and food for ...

Hokkaido’s Sapporo Snow Festival may be less known internationally than the northern city's famous export — Sapporo beer — but the spectacular week-long showcase has become a major winter attraction ...

but a lot fell over the three days just before the festival opened." The event could usually rely on snow trucked in from Hokkaido's mountains to build its famous ice sculptures, Watanabe said.

It's ice floe season! Weather officials in Abashiri City in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, announced that ice floes, a much-awaited natural wonder, have finally reached the city's ...

SAPPORO—The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Hokkaido’s most popular winter events, opened here on Feb. 4, overcoming what had been a record low snowfall this season. About 140 snow statues are ...

SAPPORO--The annual Sapporo Snow Festival, one of the nation’s biggest ... the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Hokkaido after the turn of the year, the executive committee ...

The recent Hokkaido Snow Festival was a success, with tour members enjoying ample snowfall and breathtaking ice sculptures. “Hokkaido was blessed with ample snowfall this year, and the ice ...

And Hokkaido is the place to go for a real winter wonderland experience, with places like Hoshino Resort Tomamu opening dreamy ice hotels that you can actually spend a night in. Photo: Hoshino ...

The heavy snow and traffic disruptions came just as a popular snow festival began in Sapporo in southern Hokkaido, although the city did not face major disruptions. Television footage showed residents ...