All the photos are up now. Enjoy.
I guess I should give a bit of background. Every year, the city of Sapporo (on Hokkaido) holds a “snow festival” where the locals get together and build massive snow and ice sculptures. The larger ones supposedly take 3000 people 30 days and about 600 truckloads of snow to put together. Quite an impressive technical feat.
Look out… raah
That bear before was from this display
Wasn’t there a song or a movie about ice castles awhile back?
Or if you don’t like your castles made of ice, we can do snow as well…
The little girl looks like she’s having more fun than the guy who gets to make sure nobody falls and hits their head.
Do you know who HG is? It’s kinda an inside joke…
Good luck getting that bicycle out, sucker!
This is from the second floor of our hotel. The icicles reach all the way to the ground. More like a curtain than spikes.
Oh mah gawd!
Sapporo station
Awesome. The quality of sculptures and photos are stunning.
In the picture with the buried bicycle–notice the Dairy Queen cone near the Coke machine. It struck me as a bit ironic.
How cool!! (no pun intended) Thanks so much for sharing your photos.