Saturday, May 21, 2011

Sapporo Snow Festival - Japan


Winter is cold. So I dislike to go to outside and hang around. But an intersting thing is attracting me. If someone who likes festival and canival will like and love it. When you go to a wedding hall, you may see snow statues. It is very beautiful and enough to attract sights. But it is the tip of the iceberg. There are many and huge snow statues in Sapporo snow festival. The snow statues are made very detaily and exquisitly. From now on I am going to explain about sapporo snow festival. It is the one of the famous festival in the world.


 The average temperature is -3.5℃. Despite it is so cold, Sapporo snow festival is very famous. Sapporo overcomed that Sapporo is cold. The number of visitors is over two millions. So, it is good time to advertise Japan, Sapporo, traditional food and something like that. In addition, the snow was used 6500 of 5tons truck. It is huge amount. Period is 7days and it holds 4 places; Odori park, Makomanai, Nakajima, and Susukino. There is no enough time to look around all things. So many people look around odori park. Odori park is heart of Sapporo because every subway pass Odori station. Sapporo is famous for noodle, beer, and diary prosucts.

  
When we see snow statues that made up of  snow and ice, it is just beautiful. However, it this beauty, there is pain of world war II. Saporro snow festival was started to overcome the losing of world war II. At that time, middle students made snow statues at the park. First, students made just for fun. After that, snow fighting, carnival and displaying of snow statues were done. Although it was small festival fifty thousands people visited after it developed more big festival. In 1967, it became more detail and main thema. At that time, Sapooro Olympic was held and it was well known. And then the visitors were increasing and it became very famous and huge festival in the world. So it became a good rest place to dejected Japanese.

It is good for children also. There are lots of place for children. There are some palce that can play with parents. Also, we can see comic book characters.
Not only snow statues, music concert, ski show, and singing contest. You may not bored.



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