The Thai team’s World Water Festival sculpture secured second place at the 49th International Snow Sculpture Contest.

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan - 04, 2025 Snow sculptures are lit up at Odori Park in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Feb. 4, 2025, the opening day of the Sapporo Snow Festival.

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 ...

But how about snow? At the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan, among the sculptures at the festival is none other than Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani. Snow-hei ️ A sculpture of Shohei ...

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.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency's Sapporo ... Self-Defense Forces personnel, standing on scaffolding, are seen sculpting a giant snow statue at Odori Park in Sapporo's Chuo Ward ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival is a long running tradition in Japan, first beginning in 1950 ... Standing at five meters tall, the Gundam snow sculpture will stand tall until February 11th.

Of these, 80 are citizens' snow sculptures. One of the sculptures depicts Japan's Haruka Kitaguchi, who won the gold medal in the women's javelin at the Paris Olympics last year. As snow fell ...

SAPPORO, Japan (Kyodo) -- The annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido's largest city kicked off an elaborate weeklong affair Tuesday, featuring a multitude of ice and snow sculptures, attractions ...

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 ...