At the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan, among the sculptures at the festival is none other than Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani. The Sapporo Snow Festival is an annual weeklong event that dates ...
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 The prefecture said parts ...
featuring a total of 202 snow and ice sculptures at three venues. The Sapporo Snow Festival will run until Feb. 11. Five giant snow sculptures, each about 10 to 13 meters tall, were set up at the ...
Japan is battling the coldest wave of the season with record-breaking snowfall in the northern main island of Hokkaido. Traffic has been hit and airports closed. Weather agencies have said the extreme ...
SAPPORO, Feb 5 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- The annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido's largest city kicked off as an elaborate weeklong affair on Feb 4, featuring a multitude of ice and snow sculptures, ...
During these years, organizers had to get creative, so drums were used at the core of snow sculptures to fill them out. More recently, the COVID pandemic halted inbound tourism to Japan.
Several carving teams have begun work at the Alaska State Snow Sculpture Competition at Ship Creek — the popular Rondy event began on Feb. 15 and runs through March 2.