Tag Archives: Sapporo

Sapporo Spring Festivals & Baseball

By Simon | June 19, 2009

Last weekend was a great time to escape Niseko to Sapporo as the 18th Yosakoi Soran dance festival (Japanese only) was on.
The festival is a great show of modern very energetic dance to modern music. For more info on the history of this style of dance check Yosakoi on Wikipedia
I was also lucky enough to [...]

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In Hokkaido

By Joel | March 16, 2009

As last weeks warmer weather showed us spring is on the way, but as you can see from Simon’s photo’s the winter still has some bite left. The snow arrived just in time for the weekend and word on the street was that Rusutsu had some great snow.Unfortunately being the weekend and due to a [...]

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Grand Hirafu, Higashiyama, Annupuri, Kokusai,Open!!!

By Joel | November 27, 2008

Last weekend brought the day everyone had been waiting for, opening day ! Mother natures timing was perfect, just a few days before things were looking a little sketchy, snow was a little, as they say thin on the ground but about Wednesday last week it began to snow again, and when Saturday came around [...]

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The First Snowfall 2

By Simon | November 26, 2008

Every year when it snows for the first time and the landscape is covered in this magnificent blanket of white I am amazed at how different things can look. Almost nothing else can compare to this as mother nature paints the ground white and finishes its work of art with small dabs of snow [...]

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