I was really excited about the Snow Festival. I heard it was supposed to be amazing. Well, the feats of architecture and art were definitely impressive, but I'm also glad I included skiing in the trip.
The Snow Festival is put on in three places in Sapporo. Makomanai has huge snow scenes with ice slides for the kids. This area is the most popular place for schools to bring their students on a field trip. I was attacked immediately by kindergarteners asking for foreigners' signitures. There were quite a few foreigners.
Susukino was the ice sculpture area. There were quite a few fish and eagles, including a house with real fish frozen into the walls.
The main site was Odori. This is park that runs through the city about seven blocks long. Here is where the huge snow scenes and life size snow buildings were constructed, along with smaller character sculptures. My favorites were the Nagoya castle, Mickey and Minnie riding a dragon, and Darth Vador. The best time to see the festival is at night when they light everything up, so during the day we went ice skating, toured the Sapporo Beer Museum, and wandered around Sapporo. It was a nice relaxing time.
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