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 ...

Hokkaidō, Japan’s northernmost main island, sees bitterly cold winters and plenty of snow each year. The main city of Sapporo makes the most of this with its annual Snow Festival, which has ...

SAPPORO—The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Hokkaido’s most popular ... mentioned the record-level snowfalls that were hitting other areas of Japan’s northernmost main island on Feb.

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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 ...

SAPPORO, (Japan): The capital of Hokkaido observed the ... was seen covered with snow on Sunday morning. “When I came here last week, much of the mountain was still green,” said a local ...

Presiding over the mountainous island of Hokkaido, the dynamic urban center is a bustling hot spot that offers all of the charms of Japan ... the annual Sapporo Snow Festival each February ...

Record-breaking snowfall fell on Japan’s northern main island ... and traffic disruptions came just as a popular snow festival began in Sapporo in southern Hokkaido, although the city did ...

Shoulder season refers to the period of time between peak season and off. This can last months or weeks depending on destination. For example, if summer is the peak season and winter is the off season ...