Sapporo Snow Fest

Can you guess our first stop in Sapporo? The Beer Museum of course! Since 1876, Sapporo beer sales are still growing strong. The guided tour ended in a tasting room, as all good brewery tours should!
This morning, we walked through the main event in Sapporo - The Snow Fest in Odori Park. Since 1950, Odori Park was the place where the citizens of Sapporo dumped the snow they shoveled from the streets and around their homes. This snow was used to build snow sculptures. Today, teams from countries, regions, and cities around the world participate and compete in creating snow sculptures. This year's International Snow Sculpture Contest champion was Finland with their beautiful and intricate design. We walked a few blocks away and found the ice sculpture contests.
The amount of tourists was almost as amazing as the sculptures themselves!!Read more