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Sapporo Food
Sapporo is famous for its fresh seafood. Crab, scallops, and salmon are popular ingredients here, with most dishes based around their natural flavors.
Nijo Fish Market opens at 7 AM, and is the place for everything fresh. Start the day with donburi – a bowl of rice topped with your choice of seafood. [...]
Posted: February 7th, 2008 under - Hokkaido, Food, Winter.
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Sapporo Snow Festival
Hokkaido the home of powder snow, seafood, and Ghenkis Khan, has another famous attraction every winter.
For 7 days in February, its capital city Sapporo, becomes the tourist mecca for 2 million Japanese and foreign tourists, flocking to see the winter spectacular on offer.
This is the 59th Sapporo Snow Festival. Held from February 5 [...]
Posted: February 6th, 2008 under - Hokkaido, - Snow Areas, Festivals, Winter.
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