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Sunday, February 06 2005
We left Niseko Hirafu at 10am on Saturday morning and spent a few hours on a bus to Sapporo -- getting in around 1pm. It was snowing, and cold, so we grabbed some lunch in the train station (at ichi, ni, san which is 1,2,3 in Japanese) and then walked the streets. The snow festival didn't actually start until the Monday (thanks heaps travel agent) but the final preparations were being made. Check out the photos for some of the guys carving the ice sculptures with chain saws. This picture was taken the next day in Odari-3, which is one of the main showing areas. It was really interesting and some of the sculptures were amazing!

After the morning at the snow festival on Sunday, we took the train to Chitose (quite an adventure with two snowboards, a pair of skis & poles, three pairs of boots, plus all related equipment) and flew to Tokyo