SAPPORO—The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Hokkaido’s most popular winter ... level snowfalls that were hitting other areas of Japan’s northernmost main island on Feb. 4.

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 ...

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 ...

This all culminates in the Sapporo Snow Festival (known in Japanese ... snow-covered Sapporo is one of Japan's most unmissable tourist destinations. Hokkaido is Japan's second-largest island ...

Presiding over the mountainous island of Hokkaido ... Sapporo beer. These days, Sapporo is best known for its neighboring epic ski resorts—and for organizing the annual Sapporo Snow Festival ...

Record-breaking snowfall fell on Japan’s northern main island ... disruptions came just as a popular snow festival began in Sapporo in southern Hokkaido, although the city did not face major ...

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

NAGOYA, Japan >> Hands-free luggage services, which allow international visitors to Japan to travel light, are growing, with luggage being checked in at airports and train stations and delivered to ...