(SPOT.ph) Ahh, Sapporo. It was love at frost ... we found ourselves in a charmingly wintry scene at the Entrance Square. A small mound of snow stood in the center, with rustic wooden sleds piled ...

SAPPORO--The annual Sapporo Snow Festival, one of the nation’s biggest winter events, is to be held online for the second straight year due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID ...

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 ...

Known for its incredible culinary scene, year-round adventures ... epic ski resorts—and for organizing the annual Sapporo Snow Festival each February (which just wrapped its 70th anniversary).

Visitors are flocking to Sapporo, northern Japan, to see frozen sculptures at the festival, which marks its 70th anniversary this year. Almost 200 snow and ice sculptures are on display at three ...

An observatory at the top of Moiwa, which provides panoramic view of Sapporo, was seen covered with snow on Sunday morning. “When I came here last week, much of the mountain was still green ...

OCA honorary life vice president Wei Jizhong commended the Japanese organizers, shared colorful anecdotes about competitors from warm weather nations and thanked the citizens of Sapporo.