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Asahikawa Winter Festival Is Famouse for Gigantic Snow Sculpture
February 11th, 2015
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Asahikawa Winter Festival
Asahikawa Winter Festival is a snow festival event held in early February. It was held for the first time in 1960, and this is one of the 2 Major Winter Festival with Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido, about 1 million tourists come to see the event. Asahikawa Winter Festival has 2 sites, Asahibashi Bridge Site and Heiwadori Shopping Park Site. As for the Asahibashi Bridge Site adjacent to Tokiwa park, a gigantic snow sculpture is featured. World Ice Sculpture Contest is held at the Heiwadori Shopping Park Site, and ice sculptur works are displayed.
Asahibashi Bridge Site
There are snow sculptures and activities at the Asahibashi Bridge Site. The gigantic snow sculpture is particularly famous, and Ultraman Ginga S and Ultraman Victory's snow sculpture with 17 m in height and 35 m in width were made in 2015. There are small and medium snow sculptures, a long slide with 100 m in length, a mini-train, a snow banana, a huge snow maze, tubings at the site. * The Snow banana costs a rate. New snow sculptures are created every year. Admission free.
Asahikawa Snow Festival 2017 in Evening
Look of Snow Festival is as following in 2017.
Atmosphere of Asahikawa Snow Festival in Evening Can Be Watched on Youtube
Movie of Asahikawa Snow Festival in Evening
Asahikawa Snow Festival 2015 in Daytime
Look of Snow Festival is as following in 2015.
As well as snow sculptures and activities, stalls called Winter Marche that tasty meals of various places in Hokkaido can be eaten and restrooms are established. Fireworks and a video made with projection mapping techniques seem to be shown in the evening, too. An exhibition duration is about 1 week. The snow sculptures are broken afterwards. There seems to be a tour that visitors can observe this destruction. Because there is not a parking lot for a privately-owned car, the visitors can use a free shuttle bus.
Atmosphere of Asahikawa Snow Festival Be Watched on Youtube
Movie of Asahikawa Snow Festival
| Admission fee | Free of charge |
|---|---|
| Parking lot | A parking is not provided |
| Business hours | 09:00-21:00 |
| Regular closing day | From mid February to late January |
| Telephone number | +81-166-25-7168 |
| Home page | Home page is here |
| Mapcode | 79 403 012*00 |
Heiwadori Shopping Park Site
World Ice Sculpture Contest is held at the Heiwadori shopping park site, and ice works are displayed along a shopping street with about 1 km in length. It seems to be the only international contest in Japan and is competed with 2 branches, an individual match and a team game. The production time is fixed within 40 hours and the entrant vie with each other for the prize in those. Because there is not a parking lot for privately-owned cars, visitors must park our car at the paid parking lots. Admission free.
Atmosphere of World Ice Sculpture Contest Can Be Watched on Youtube
Movie of World Ice Sculpture Contest
| Admission fee | Free of charge |
|---|---|
| Parking lot | A parking is not provided |
| Business hours | 09:00-21:00 |
| Regular closing day | From mid February to late January |
| Telephone number | +81-166-25-7168 |
| Home page | Home page is here |
| Mapcode | 79 343 740*64 |
Accommodations
Refer to following websites for the accommodations around Asahikawa.
A page of Asahikawa is here
Asahikawa
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