This will be the 61st Sapparo snow festival, for those that know nothing about what this is;

The Sapporo Snow Festival (Sapporo Yuki Matsuri) is held during one week every February in Hokkaido’s capital Sapporo. The 2010 Snow Festival is currently being held from February 5 through February 11, 2010.

The Sapporo Snow Festival was started in 1950, when high school students built a few snow statues in Odori Park. It has since developed into a large, commercialized event, featuring spectacular snow and ice sculptures and attracting more than two million visitors from Japan and across the world

Pictures from the 2009 Sapporo snow festival:

Pictures are from pinktentacle, these pictures are from 2009,2010 pictures will be updated in a new article later this week

Update! 2010 pictures can be found here

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