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February 2027 1 events
Festival Hokkaido S
02/04–02/10
Sapporo Snow Festival
Odori Park and other venues, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Snow sculptures are made knowing they will vanish in days. In February, giant sculptures rising more than ten meters lin
Year-round
Festival Hokkaido S
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
Festival Hokkaido O
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
Festival Hokkaido H
例年8月中旬
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
Festival Hokkaido A
例年2月上旬（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
Festival Hokkaido L
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
Festival Hokkaido H
例年10月上旬〜中旬が見頃
Hoheikyo Gorge
840 Jozankei, Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido
The valley is quiet. For the last two kilometers, from the gate to the dam, nothing with an engine is allowed through —
Festival Hokkaido J
例年10月上旬〜中旬が見頃
Jozankei
Jozankei Onsen, Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Sapporo is a city of two million people, and this gorge is inside its municipal limits. Jozankei sits about an hour by r
Festival Hokkaido G
例年9月中旬〜下旬が見頃
Ginsendai
Ginsendai, Sounkyo, Kamikawa, Hokkaido
Japan's autumn is usually filed under late November, maples, temple gardens. It starts here instead, in mid-September, h
Festival Hokkaido M
例年4月中旬〜5月下旬が見頃
Matsumae Park Cherry Blossoms
Matsumae Park, Matsushiro, Matsumae, Hokkaido
Cherry blossom lasts about a week in most places. In Matsumae it lasts a month, because the town spent a long time colle
Festival Hokkaido N
例年5月上旬〜中旬が見頃
Nijukken-doro Cherry Avenue
Nijukken-doro Cherry Avenue, Shizunai Tawara to Shizunai Misono, Shinhidaka, Hokkaido
This road was not built to be looked at. It was built to be driven along, by members of the imperial family inspecting a