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 ...

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.

Hokkaidō, Japan’s northernmost main island, sees bitterly cold winters and plenty of snow each year. The main city of Sapporo makes the most of this with its annual Snow Festival, which has ...

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 ...

In Hokkaido Prefecture ... Climbing through the deep snow requires skill, experience and thorough preparation. But the ascent is fun and heading down is even more so. In Japan, the first place ...

This all culminates in the Sapporo Snow Festival (known in Japanese ... snow-covered Sapporo is one of Japan's most ...

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 ...