Snow Festival in Yuzawa, Niigata, Japan, where people are participating in a snow mikohi (portable shrine) event and are wearing traditional festival kimonos called happi.
Sent by Shimizu from Nagawa, Japan.
The Echigo Yuzawa Onsen Snow Festival is held on a local ski slope just as the ski season is coming to an end and boasts a beautiful fireworks display over snow for a heated celebration in the cold of winter. It offers chances for visitors to participate (reservation needed) with attractive events like the Torch Descent where skiers cruise down the slope in line holding torches and a snow mikoshi (portable shrine) parade on the slope as well.
The Yuzawa Kogen area including the Nunoba ski slope in which the festival is help sits at an elevation of 1,000m above sea level. The festival venue is a short walk from the Echigo Yuzawa Station with easy access to the famous hot spring section of town.
One of the highlights of this festival is the Snow Mikoshi. Visitors are able to join in on the carrying of this portable shrine. There is a limit to amount of participants so please sign up early. If you have never carried a shrine on a ski slope before this is the perfect opportunity for an experience you'll never forget (read more).
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