The Sapporo Snow Festival celebrating its 69th year in the early stages started earlier on the 1st of this month in the venue of the East District of Sapporo City. After the 5th, the main Odori venue and the Susukino venue Approximately 200 snow sculptures and ice images will be displayed along with the opening.

Among them, at the Odori meeting site, five large snow images as high as 15 m in height and two ice statues will be on display. Among these are the large auditorium of Yakushiji Temple in Nara, the video game which made a big hit, the motif of the name scene of Final Fantasy, as well as young musicians all over the world gathered in Sapporo and held every summer at the music festival A snow story that expresses profile as a relief tone will also appear, commemorating the birth of 100 years by American musician Leonard Bernstein who called for the holding of the snow.

In addition, at the Susukino venue, approximately 60 ice statues were displayed as pedestrian heaven, regulating the entry of cars in some time zones, and the venue was made with snow There is also a slide.

"Sapporo Snow Festival" will be held until the 12th of this month.