The
Sapporo Snow Festival runs for seven days each February and attracts about two million visitors from both Japan and the rest of the world. This years festival is coming to a close and the hundreds of beautiful snow statues and ice sculptures, for which the festival is famous, will be destroyed on safety grounds.
Next year's Snow Festival dates are not yet known but the Sapporo Snow Festival web site offers the following contact office for visitors wishing to know more about Sapporo:
Sapporo Citizen Contact Center Tel.011-222-4894
They advise that English assistance is available from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. (open year-round).
Labels: festival, Ice Carving, Japan, Sapporo, Sapporo Snow Festival
