The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan's largest winter events, attracts a growing number of visitors from Japan and abroad every year. Every winter, about two million people come to Sapporo to see a large number of splendid snow statues and ice sculptures which line Odori Park, the grounds at Tsudome, and the main street in Susukino. For seven days in February, these statues and sculptures (both large and small) turn Sapporo into a winter dreamland of crystal-like ice and white snow. Are you familiar with this event?

Have you ever been to the Japanese Snow Festival?

There are also sand sculpture festivals/contests around the world every year; including several in the United States. Have you ever been?

Have you ever participated or know someone who has participated?

Which do you like the best, sand or snow sculptures?