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Tokamachi Snow Festival

Written By Unknown on Friday, August 14, 2015 | 11:41 PM

     The Tokamachi Snow Festival (十日町雪祭り, Tōkamachi Yuki Matsuri) is held yearly for three days encompassing the third Saturday of February. It calls itself the first ever snow celebration celebrated in Japan, having had its first release in 1950, that year that the Sapporo Snow Festival began. Numerous snow models are made for the event and showed at different areas in the city.

     Situated in the uneven inside of Niigata Prefecture, the city of Tokamachi encounters one of the most astounding snowfall rates in Japan, with snow frequently heaping up to a tallness of two meters or more. The hardship brought on by these a lot of snow are halfway the foundation for the termination slant that this country range has been enduring under. To neutralize the negative parts of the high precipitation, the Tokamachi Snow Festival commends the plentiful snow as a method for pleasure for both the inhabitant