{"id":46,"date":"2009-02-04T01:47:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T05:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-02-04T01:47:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T05:47:31","slug":"sapporo-yuki-matsuri-%e3%81%95%e3%81%a3%e3%81%bd%e3%82%8d%e9%9b%aa%e3%81%be%e3%81%a4%e3%82%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/sapporo-yuki-matsuri-%e3%81%95%e3%81%a3%e3%81%bd%e3%82%8d%e9%9b%aa%e3%81%be%e3%81%a4%e3%82%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Culture: Sapporo Yuki Matsuri (\u3055\u3063\u307d\u308d\u96ea\u307e\u3064\u308a)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year in February millions of people all over Japan head to Sapporo (<span class=\"Jpan JA\"><strong>\u672d\u5e4c<\/strong><\/span>) for the annual Sapporo Yuki Matsuri (<strong>\u3055\u3063\u307d\u308d\u96ea\u307e\u3064\u308a<\/strong>).\u00a0 The Sapporo Yuki Matsuri (<strong>\u3055\u3063\u307d\u308d\u96ea\u307e\u3064\u308a<\/strong>) can be worded as the &#8216;Sapporo Snow Festival.&#8217;\u00a0 Just where is Sapporo (<span class=\"Jpan JA\"><strong>\u672d\u5e4c<\/strong><\/span>)?\u00a0 It&#8217;s located in the Hokkaidoo (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><span><strong>\u5317\u6d77\u9053<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) prefecture and the one of the biggest cities in Japan.\u00a0 Sapporo (<span class=\"Jpan JA\"><strong>\u672d\u5e4c<\/strong><\/span>) is located in northern Japan and receives a plentiful supply of snow every year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really the perfect place to have a snow festival!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Due to\u00a0the cold weather\u00a0and the ready supply of snow, the ice sculptures in Sapporo (<span class=\"Jpan JA\"><strong>\u672d\u5e4c<\/strong><\/span>) are perfectly preserved.\u00a0 Every year, professional ice sculpting teams gather together in Sapporo (<span class=\"Jpan JA\"><strong>\u672d\u5e4c<\/strong><\/span>) to compete against other teams.\u00a0\u00a0The best place to view the\u00a0ice sculptures is in\u00a0Odori Park (<strong>\u5927\u901a\u516c\u5712<\/strong>).\u00a0 At night, the ice sculptures are illuminated with beautiful lights.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great getaway place for couples.\u00a0 Of course, Sapporo (<span class=\"Jpan JA\"><strong>\u672d\u5e4c<\/strong><\/span>) is family friendly as well.\u00a0 There&#8217;s so much to do in Sapporo (<span class=\"Jpan JA\"><strong>\u672d\u5e4c<\/strong><\/span>).\u00a0 For example, they always have some delicious warm broths in the food stalls at Odori Park (<strong>\u5927\u901a\u516c\u5712<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the Sapporo\u00a0Terebitoo (<span class=\"t_nihongo_kanji\"><strong>\u3055\u3063\u307d\u308d\u30c6\u30ec\u30d3\u5854<\/strong><\/span>) or the Sapporo Tv Tower.\u00a0 You can see every building in Sapporo (<span class=\"Jpan JA\"><strong>\u672d\u5e4c<\/strong><\/span>) from this tower and yell &#8220;I&#8217;m the king of the world!&#8221; without having to compete with the sound of cars rushing by (yes it&#8217;s that high up).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;a Youtube video about the snow festival: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RBeUSgh0tI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RBeUSgh0tI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year in February millions of people all over Japan head to Sapporo (\u672d\u5e4c) for the annual Sapporo Yuki Matsuri (\u3055\u3063\u307d\u308d\u96ea\u307e\u3064\u308a).\u00a0 The Sapporo Yuki Matsuri (\u3055\u3063\u307d\u308d\u96ea\u307e\u3064\u308a) can be worded as the &#8216;Sapporo Snow Festival.&#8217;\u00a0 Just where is Sapporo (\u672d\u5e4c)?\u00a0 It&#8217;s located in the Hokkaidoo (\u5317\u6d77\u9053) prefecture and the one of the biggest cities in Japan.\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/sapporo-yuki-matsuri-%e3%81%95%e3%81%a3%e3%81%bd%e3%82%8d%e9%9b%aa%e3%81%be%e3%81%a4%e3%82%8a\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2842],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-snow-festival"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7116,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}