Year-round
毎年1月下旬〜3月中旬
Sounkyo Ice Waterfall Festival
Sounkyo Onsen, Kamikawa, Hokkaido
In January, something is built in the gorge. The canyon walls of Sounkyo become in winter the frame for an ice festival
通年（週末・祝日が中心）
Obihiro Banei Racing: The Only Draft Horse Race in the World
Obihiro Racecourse, Nishi-13-jo Minami 9, Obihiro City, Hokkaido
Banei racing exists nowhere else in the world. The horses are draft breeds — heavy, powerful, built for pulling rather t
2026年8月中旬（例年8月）
Hokkaido Shimbun Summer Fireworks
Toyohira River, Sapporo, Hokkaido
These are fireworks for a cool summer. Sapporo's warm season is brief, and that brevity makes it precious. Along the ban
例年2月上旬（さっぽろ雪まつりとほぼ同時期・約1週間）
Asahikawa Winter Festival: The City That Built a World Record in Snow
Asahibashi riverside on the Ishikari River and Kaimono Koen, Asahikawa, Hokkaido
Asahikawa sits in the coldest basin of any major Japanese city—mornings of minus twenty are ordinary here—and every Febr
例年1月下旬〜2月中旬
Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival: Ice Grown from a Lake That Never Freezes
Shikotsuko Onsen, Chitose, Hokkaido
Lake Shikotsu is a caldera lake south of Sapporo, among the clearest bodies of water in Japan and so deep that it never