Tsurui, Akan District, Hokkaido, Japan - 17, 2025 Red-crowned cranes, designated as a Japanese special national treasure, are in mating season on their snow-covered feeding grounds in the Hokkaido ...

The Snow Miku 2025 celebration was held in Hokkaido on February 8-9, 2025. The Nendoroid design for this year’s version of Snow Miku and Rabbit Yukine was revealed in August 2024. Pre-orders for the ...

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SAPPORO, Feb 5 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- The annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido's largest city kicked off as an elaborate weeklong affair on Feb 4, featuring a multitude of ice and snow sculptures, ...

In Hokkaido, which has been hit by a severe cold wave in recent days, a video captured the moment when one of two deer running on snow-covered roads slipped and fell. The deer that fell quickly got ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People remove snow from a street in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP) A ...

Without the images it might be hard to wrap your mind around the amount of snow blanketing the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan. In just 12 hours, the city of Obihiro got 47 inches (about 4 ...

Hokkaido has been having record snowfall this season, mainly in the Tokachi region. The prefecture also had heavy snow back in the winter season from late 2021 into early 2022. At the time ...

The heavy snow and traffic disruptions came just as a popular snow festival began in Sapporo in southern Hokkaido, although the city did not face major disruptions. Television footage showed ...