Sapporo Snow Festival 2017
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The Sapporo Snow Festival begins on February 6th and runs until February 12th this year. Activities such as the snow slide and snow rafting activities began on February 1st at the Tsudome Community Dome site and continue until February 12th.
This year is the 68th Sapporo Snow Festival, which has its origins back in 1950 when local high school students made six impromptu snow and ice sculptures in the city's Odori Park. In 1955, the Japanese Self Defense Forces helped out to make the large ice sculptures seen today.
The main venues to see the ice and snow sculptures are: Odori Park, Tsudome Community Dome and Susukino - the major entertainment and commercial area of Sapporo, south of Sapporo Station. The sculptures at Odori Park are illuminated until 10pm every evening, while those in Susukino continue lit until 11pm.
Among this year's over 200 ice sculptures are ice replicas of the video game, Final Fantasy VII with the sculpture Decisive Battle: Final Fantasy in Snow complete with a new sound system. Continuing the media theme is Star Wars 40th Anniversary - Star Wars in White. Both statues are at the main Odori venue.
Traditional Japanese architecture is represented in snow and ice by a replica of the Chukondo (Central Golden Hall) of Kofukuji Temple in Nara. The original Central Golden Hall at Kofukuji was destroyed by fire in 1717 and although a smaller reconstruction was built in the 1800's a completely new full-scale replica...
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