Every year there is a giant snow festival in the city of Tokamachi. Tokamachi is about 2-3 hours south of my house. It is the oldest snow festival in Japan! There are many events including snow sculpture competition, concert, sledding and festival food!
Christian and I headed over to Tokamachi around supper time and checked out a few sculptures and went to the terrible concert. Here is what we saw...
Here is the first sculpture we saw while driving in...
We thought this was a cool one but weren't totally sure what it was. Phoenix and tiger and maybe a cave...
Christian and I...
Gods opening a gate...
After checking out these sculptures we went up to the snow stage to hear the concert. The singer was Watanabe Misato. She apparently is a little older of a singer and popular among the middle aged crowd. We all thought she was terrible but had a great time dancing (to stay warm) like fools! The stage was made totally out of ice and snow. Lights and a few fireworks made it quiet a sight...
After the concert, Christian and I ate some terrible, greasy festival food and then meet up with a group of friends for a drink. They had these cute tiger sculptures by the food...
Christian and I...
After drinks Christian found our way home in a round about way seeking out a few more sculptures. The map was terrible so we got lost a few times but eventually found our way! We found this sculpture that I think was a "New Years" themed sculpture. It had a few tigers and samurai in it.
and us...
And the last sculpture we found (the one we originally went out looking for) was a "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed one. It was about 1 am when we found this one so there were no lights. We had to position the car in the most upright way we could and then turn on the brights to see it.
Me + the sculpture...
and Christian and I...
Christian and I headed over to Tokamachi around supper time and checked out a few sculptures and went to the terrible concert. Here is what we saw...
Here is the first sculpture we saw while driving in...
We thought this was a cool one but weren't totally sure what it was. Phoenix and tiger and maybe a cave...
Christian and I...
Gods opening a gate...
After checking out these sculptures we went up to the snow stage to hear the concert. The singer was Watanabe Misato. She apparently is a little older of a singer and popular among the middle aged crowd. We all thought she was terrible but had a great time dancing (to stay warm) like fools! The stage was made totally out of ice and snow. Lights and a few fireworks made it quiet a sight...
After the concert, Christian and I ate some terrible, greasy festival food and then meet up with a group of friends for a drink. They had these cute tiger sculptures by the food...
Christian and I...
After drinks Christian found our way home in a round about way seeking out a few more sculptures. The map was terrible so we got lost a few times but eventually found our way! We found this sculpture that I think was a "New Years" themed sculpture. It had a few tigers and samurai in it.
and us...
And the last sculpture we found (the one we originally went out looking for) was a "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed one. It was about 1 am when we found this one so there were no lights. We had to position the car in the most upright way we could and then turn on the brights to see it.
Me + the sculpture...
and Christian and I...
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