"Sapporo Snow Festival" opens today, affected by new pneumonia and lack of snow

The “Sapporo Snow Festival” opens today The effects of new pneumonia and lack of snow are also on February 4 at 5:28

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The Sapporo Snow Festival, which colors winter Sapporo with snow and ice statues, will begin on the 4th at the main venue in the city center. The event will be held under the influence of the spread of the new coronavirus and the lack of snow.

The Sapporo Snow Festival, which is celebrating its 71st anniversary, will be the main venue on the 4th, following the Tsudum Venue in Higashi-ku, Sapporo City, which started earlier, and the Odori Venue in the center of Sapporo City and the Susukino Venue in the downtown area But it will open and about 200 snow and ice statues will be on display.

At the Odori venue, five large snow statues will appear, including a snow statue that reproduces a Polish palace in half the actual size and a 12-meter-high snow statue on the theme of Thoroughbred in Hokkaido.

About 60 ice statues are on display at the Susukino venue, and you can enjoy a slide made of snow at the Tsudum venue.

The Sapporo Snow Festival is a major winter event in Sapporo that last year attracted more than 2.7 million visitors.

All three venues will run until the 11th of this month.

New Coronavirus Countermeasures

The Executive Committee of the Snow Festival will also take measures against the new coronavirus because the venue is crowded with many people in Japan and overseas.

Disinfectants will be installed at the entrance and toilets of the venue.

In addition, a poster with measures to prevent infection will be posted at the venue.
When posters have coughing or sneezing symptoms, they should put on a mask as much as possible, and if they do not have a mask, keep their mouths inside their sleeves and jackets in caution. You.

In addition, the Executive Committee calls on staff and volunteers to provide information on the venue and wear masks to prevent infection.

Slide small due to lack of snow

There is also a record snow shortage.

The slide at the Tsumumu venue was originally planned to be 10m high, but it was reduced to 7m due to lack of snow.

In addition, in order to cope with the lack of snow, private companies started importing snow earlier than planned and increased the number of trucks, and also responded by increasing the number of trucks. I carried it in.