The Sapporo Snow Festival is the pinnacle of all winter festivals held in Japan. Founded in 1950, it celebrates the natural beauty and joy found in abundance in Japan’s northern capital.

This year's festival came dangerously close to being cancelled, before it was saved by a last-minute snowfall Japan's Sapporo ...

Sapporo, Japan, Feb. 12, 2011: Hundreds of interesting snow and ice sculptures like this one dot the streets of downtown Sapporo, Japan, during the city’s annual snow festival.

The 73rd Sapporo Snow Festival began in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Saturday. The festival, featuring more than 160 ice and snow sculptures, is open to the public for the first time since 2020. It was held ...

Making an appearance at the 2024 Sapporo Snow Festival was Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese pitcher for the LA Dodgers baseball team who is known in the US by the nickname 'Shotime' and beloved in Japan.

Sapporo – An iconic annual snow festival kicked off in Sapporo on Tuesday, featuring a total of 202 snow and ice sculptures at three venues. The Sapporo Snow Festival will run until Feb. 11.

The Sapporo Snow Festival has long been a part of Japan’s winter culture, routinely offering creative artists the opportunity to use the snow to create some wild pieces of art.As the anime ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival is an annual weeklong event that dates to 1950 in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands. The festival features around 200 sculptures, according to the Japan ...

When a 15-metre-high snow sculpture took centre stage at a snow festival in Japan, it helped form a surprisingly powerful relationship between two islands — Hokkaido and Tasmania.

A snow sculpture of Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani is covered with snow at the Sapporo Snow Festival, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Credit: AP ...