The big festival of the month is the YOSAKOI Soran Festival which fills the streets of Sapporo with energetic dance performances. Besides the lilac flowers, the visitors can enjoy locally produced wines and dishes, as well as music performances.Īfter the snow has melted away and the sun has started to warm up the city, the summer festivals start in June. The Lilac Festival was started in 1959 and has its main event in the central Sapporo, in Odori Park, which boasts about 400 lilac trees. What comes to the actual festivals, the spring’s main festival is the Sapporo Lilac Festival, held around the last week of May. During that time, even though they are not counted as officially arranged festivals, the hanami cherry blossoming viewing parties fill the parks of Sapporo. In Sapporo, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom usually from the last week of April to early May. The chilly weather continues in Sapporo throughout the spring. During December, the temperatures are usually quite mild, something between -5 to +5☌ (+23 to +41℉), but January and February have often cold spells and the temperature drops to -15 C to -10☌ (+5 F to +14℉) during the day and even to -20☌ (-4℉) during the night. The heaviest snowfall is in January and February. The first snow falls in November but the city gets a more permanent snow cover usually after mid-December. For this reason, the weather can greatly vary within the city, for example, it might be a blizzard in the northern parts of the city but just light snow in the south. Central, eastern, and northern parts of Sapporo are located in the southwestern part of the Ishikari plain but the western and southern parts climb up the mountainsides. It is built along the Toyohira river on the plains between the mountains and the Sea of Japan. With about 2 million inhabitants, Sapporo is the largest city in Hokkaido, Japan, and the capital of the island. For more general information about Sapporo, check out the blog columns Sapporo: A Metropolis Close to Nature and Sapporo: The Capital City of Hokkaido. The other blog column about spring, summer, and fall festivals is right here: Sapporo: The City of Seasonal Festivals. This is the first blog column in a series of blog columns about Sapporo festivals. In this blog column, you can read about winter festivals and events in Sapporo. A central location for the Sapporo festivals is Odori Park in the heart of the city but the events spread to other locations in the city, too. The most famous of these festivals are Sapporo Snow Festival ( Sapporo yukimatsuri in Japanese) and Sapporo White Illumination with numerous events, such as the German Christmas market. Being the capital of snow, it’s only suitable that there are festivals in Sapporo themed around the winter and snow. Sapporo-the most famous and largest city in Hokkaido, Japan-is known for being a metropolis with one of the world’s largest yearly snowfalls.
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