Hey guys, good morning and welcome to Sapporo Hokkaido! I'm here with my
friend Chiaki and we are here for the Sapporo Snow Festival! It is so cold as you can
tell. I'm very happy to have this fluffy scarf that I got in my fukubukuro!
We're also joined by Chris and Pete Donaldson, and Natsuki and his wife are here
as well. Hi Natsuki! and we're currently exploring
the food area, there are so many food stalls. Hokkaido is famous for lots of
different foods like potatoes, dairy products, ramen, what else...
corn, crabs, everything! All the foods of Japan. They have a kabocha dango
pumpkin rice ball - dango shiruko! Yeah red bean soup! I love it. It's a
dessert so yeah
it looks so warm I never have pumpkin dango
it kinda tastes like pumpkin pie, it's so good! it's not too
sweet you know if you're kind of iffy about trying the red bean paste that is
in a lot of Japanese desserts I think oshiruko is a good place to start
because they mix it with hot water it's kind of watered down and it's really
yummy and I feel like you guys would all really like it give it up we've got an
ice igloo smoking lounge and Natsuki is excited
so the main attraction of this festival are the ice and snow sculptures and
they're just absolutely amazing when it turns to night they do like a projection
light show on them which is really it took 3650 people
to build it 28 days maple syrup after sweet Christmas in England
should I know in London you cannot get hectic oh yes but detective but
Amazake! My favourite
She's gonna try amazake for the first time I feel like it for sure
it's sweet yeah sweet but not too sweet kind of like rice and sugar
okay
Nice right? yeah that's like sweet rice
How is it?
does it taste like beer? Light light
Lighter and sweet
it's like they mixed beer with some kind of blueberry pop
Look at this little train! You can ride it through the ice sculptures
Cup noodle, and this guy
Ah it's kaonashi but again he's kind of covered in snow can't really see him
Natsuki's lining up for the kiddy slide
there's one snack I need to warn you guys about it's called long potato but
it's like potatoes sugar and cake but in a gross way
He looks so sad, why's he so sad?
We're back, it's night time now we took a little rest in the hotel it was so cool we kind of needed to warm
up do not underestimate how cold it is in Hokkaido it is very different than the
rest of Japan even living in Iwate Prefecture which is quite up north this
feels so cool so yeah we're gonna check out the festival at night time it see
what it looks like they do lots of like light-up displays and the TV tower
Look they're still carving some sculptures here it's cool to watch them we couldn't
tell what this was before because it was covered in snow but it looks like
somebody's finally come and cleared the statues of all the fresh snow from
yesterday so that's good we can finally see what they are
it looks like they've set up a mobile Pokemon Center for the Sapporo Snow
Festival it's really cool they're selling plushies and stuff
They're closed at the moment unfortunately I can't go inside but can take a peek
we're just walking down the street to go get some dinner
this shrine looks so pretty in the snow so we have here fried octopus balls the
food of Osaka some wonderful viewers who have now left the restaurant
Actually bought this for us as a present but there's a catch one of the takoyaki in
here is filled with karashi - spicy unpleasantly tasting mustard and so one
of us at the table here will die. three two one so
badly timed
Normal. Normal? Normal face.
I'm gonna go I'm gonna go next and I'm gonna put a
little England flag a little Britain flag
Did you just say England frag?
I'm gonna say goodnight here. We're going back to our hotel to warm up. It's so
cold! Jesus. We just got outside from the restaurant we've only been outside 30
seconds my legs are already painfully freezing. Right now we're in the Susukino District
of sapporo it's kind of like the downtown it really reminds me
of Osaka - it's really cool at nighttime! I hope you guys enjoyed the vlog make sure
to go check out Chiaki on YouTube. Her videos are in Japanese but maybe you guys
could practice your Japanese skills! And I will link everybody's Instagram and
stuff down below as well. Thanks for watching guys!