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The 61st Sapporo Snow Festival will be held from February 6 through February 11. More than 2 million visitors are expected to converge in the downtown Sapporo area to see the stunning snow and ice sculptures.

The Sapporo Snow Festival began in 1950 by a group of high school students who sculpted six statues along the Odori Park.

Lucky Pierrot, a Japanese burger chain in Hokkaidō that has whale burgers on the menu.

My wife managed to snag the first prize trip to Sapporo in some magazine contest! We got hotel vouchers, 2 tickets to a cow-milking, vegatable-picking, and cheese-making tour, and 40,000 yen in flight coupons, all on someone else's dime!

So Genghis Khan, a sheep and a caramel walk into a bar right? After sitting down at the counter, the bartender comes up to them.
'What'll you have?' the bartender asks the caramel.
'I'll have a beer,' the caramel says, so the bartender pours him a beer.
He turns to the sheep and asks the same question.
'What'll you have?'
The sheep looks for a second at the caramel.

With a dwindling population and a falling birthrate, a town on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido plans to auction off four primary schools on the Internet.

"It became necessary to consolidate the schools due to the falling birthrate," a municipal statement said.

"An incident at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido last year that could have resulted in a collision was caused by confusing English instructions issued by an air traffic controller, the Japan Transport Safety Board has concluded."

Over 20 students of a private Hokkaido high school here were punished for shoplifting in Los Angeles while they were visiting the United States on a school trip.

The Hokkaido king crab is one of the top delicacies in Japan. The rich and firm meat in their legs tastes sweeter than their Alaskan counterparts, which a
re slightly salty. The smallest ones of this kind are still five times bigger than usual crabs. Hairy crabs are famous for their abundant tasty roe while snow crabs are known for tender rosy meat with a unique flavour.