The 60th Sapporo Snow Festival (第60回さっぽろ雪まつり：dai rokujyukkai sapporo yuki matsuri) started today. This is one of the biggest and well-known winter events in Hokkaido (北海道) which is the north island in Japan. It is one week event until Feb. 11. Every year about 2 million people come to see the festival.
There are 286 statues and sculptures made of snow and ice this year at three festival sites: Odori site(大通会場：odori kaijo), Tsudome site(つどーむ会場:tsudomu kaijo), and Susukino site (すすきの会場：susukino kaijo).
It is said they need the amount of snow of 6,000 5-ton trucks and about 1 month to make those statues.
If you are interested in, please check the following sites to see some pictures.
http://www.snowfes.com/english/place/oodori/index.html
http://sapporo.100miles.jp/snowfes/
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