BEAUTIFUL Otaru Snow Light Path Festival - Hokkaido, Japan
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2019
- The Otaru Snow Light Path Festival was the highlight of my Hokkaido trip! Magical, enchanting and beautiful ice lamps along the canal in the snow.
The Snow Light Path Festival takes place at the start of February in Otaru, a town on the coast in Hokkaido, Japan. It's only 30 minutes from Sapporo by train, so you can easily go on a day trip from Sapporo. There are 3 sites: the town centre, Asarigawa Hot Springs and Tenguyama, which is up a mountain ropeway. We went to the town centre site, which has two main areas: along the canal with the warehouses and the Temiyasen former railway line. It starts at about 5:30pm as it gets dark, with illuminations until 9pm. There's an amazing variety of snow lamps and displays. It's so creative and magical! It lasts for 10 days and overlaps with the Sapporo Snow Festival, so you can visit them both in the same trip. In 2020, the Otaru snow light festival will be on 8-16 February 2020.
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Amazing vdo! even I watched it 3 years later. It was so romantic and beautiful. You’ve given every information visitor like me would need. Thank you so much ❤
Still have wonderful memories from this festival! I enjoyed it even more than the Sapporo Snow Festival as it had such heart. Glad you enjoyed it too!
These all looked really cute and yes really cosy 😂🇬🇧🏴
They look cosy to me now too - in the video.. when it's summertime!! :-)
Amazing
The highlight of my trip to Hokkaido!
If you find yourself in winter conditions again. Try putting your electronics in the inside pockets of your coats. Body heat will slow down how quickly your batteries die. Dress in layers to even better effect, plus it will help regulate your temperature, get too hot take a layer off, get too cold put it back on. Lastly, take a portable battery to recharge from and keep that close to the body until your ready to use it. Tips from a Canadian who lives in a place where it gets to minus 40 in the winter.
Cheers and well done with the videos, my Son and I always enjoy them :)
Thanks for the tips! -40, wow! 😱 When I got back to the hotel, everything in my bag felt like it had been in the fridge!! I'm not used to that, coming from the UK! :-)
Looks amazing!
..Those hanging stars are nice, the lamps are what made it relaxing and cozy..
It was so beautiful! I'm amazed at all the different displays they came up with!
@@cakeswithfaces ..Who ever thought that you could do all those things out of ice..really wonderful..👌👍 Check it out again next year.. 😊
Great video!!! Thank you for your Japan videos!
Thanks so much, I really enjoy sharing them with you guys!
You did a wonderful job with the canal scenes. A really delightful travelogue.
Thank you! So many happy memories from this festival, it was truly magical! ✨
Fabulous! OMG!!!
Highlight of the trip, definitely! :-)
The most beautiful vlog i've ever watched. 💙💛❤💚💜
Aww, thanks so much! :-) I'd been looking forward to editing this one!
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Thanks for another great video. Snow festival looks really beautiful.
The best part of my time in Hokkaido! :-)
What a beautiful event! I really enjoy such winter events with lights :)
It was so magical! And there are lots of other winter festivals in Japan too :-)
This is the last video before I leave for my own trip! I'm super excited.
Ooh how exciting!!! Have an amazing time & let me know how it goes! :-)
A wonderful upload!!!! Those snow sculptures are hand-crafted, and the ambience is magical. I was really impressed by the ice log house made of hand-made ice logs! True that the Otaru Snow Fest has more home-made feel to it than the snow fest in Sapporo. I would love to visit there! As always, your vlogs are so informative!
It was so creative and inventive - you can see why this was the best part of the trip! (Although I'm sure I'll say that about one or two other places too!!) :-)
Great vid Amy, it did look like a lot of fun.
Best part of my Hokkaido trip! :-)
So beautiful and mesmerising. I really want to go. Loved this video as didnt know there was a little lantern festival. I only knew about the Sapporo one. Cannot wait for thursday to see more.
Thanks! I used to think the Sapporo Snow Fetsival was the only one too, but there are actually lots of snow festivals to brighten up the winter in Japan! I'd love to visit more of them :-)
Aww will be arriving after the snow festival Feb 22...hope we can still see this
Otaru's a lovely place anyway tbh! There are actually lots of snow festivals in Hokkaido & north Japan - maybe you can catch one somewhere else?
Yeah !
The new video has come !
I didn't know this Otaru snow path festival. It's my big mistake.
But, I could know this festival by your video !
Thank you so much !
It is very beautiful, charming, and impressive !
Sapporo snow festival is very popular.
But, I felt, that I interest Otaru snow path festival than Sapporo snow festival.
Just now, I decided, I will go to Hokkaido on next February !
And, I will see both Otaru and Sapporo festival !
Thank you for fun video and nice information.
I have some information too.
There is the small museum at end of former railway Temiya line.
Former cash career car of Japan national bank is conserved at that.
This cash career car was hidden a existence for security.
If you have a interest, please visit to that on next visit.
I'm looking forward your next video.
Please enjoy !
Thanks for the info! :-) I'm glad you decided to visit Sapporo and Otaru! I wonder what other snow festivals there are! :-) When I was planning my trip, I thought the Sounkyo Ice Fall Festival looks beautiful - but it was difficult to visit from Sapporo. Maybe one day I'll go! :-)
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Thank you for comment back.
Yes, Sounkyo is difficult with one day trip from Sapporo.
And, highlight of Sounkyo ice fall festival is light-up at night.
So, if you watch that light-up, unable to one day trip from Sapporo.
Probably, you know, there is a famous hotsprings in Sounkyo.
I recommend you stay Sounkyo-Onsen hotel or Ryokan for one night.
Please enjoy !
I'm going to see the snow festival in Sapporo and Otaru next week! Might unknowingly cross paths with you, beautiful stranger!
Aha! I see what you mean, I don't know how I missed this one! Definitely booking here, thank you again for your hard work, your videos have been so useful for planning our trip ~♡
Yay, thanks so much, that's great to hear! I absolutely loved it!!!
Was much fun to see this smaller but certainly not less interesting snow festival with all the cute lights and such. Also the setup part was a nice bonus to the video. (have to be honest, I still have 3 videos to watch, been really busy with the quarter period ending at work.) I also like that you very often give good potential ideas of where to go in areas. Thanks for the video ^^
Thanks! I try and make my videos helpful! :-) I'd love to see other smaller snow festivals one day - I used to think the Sapporo festival was the only one but there are lots!
I love your videos!! you're gorgeous and you seem so friendly. I'll be going to Japan on holiday soon and will definitely be following some of your tips :D
Thanks so much! Let me know how it goes - tag me in a pic, I always love seeing them! :-)
I love how the bar has Rita in the name which happens to be my mum’s name. Now I got an excuse to take her. Not only that but it takes place in my birthday month. That’s double excuse to go😂
Sounds like good enough excuse to me! :-)
お越しいただきありがとうございました😊
Arigatou! :-)
同じ北海道でも札幌に住んでると小樽とか行くと別世界に思える
It's a magical place!
We didn't get to the Otaru Light Path festival, but we did go to Asahikawa - our video from the festival this year has just been uploaded! I'd really recommend it if you're in Hokkaido in February again!
Gotta make the most of those winter festivals if you're there at the right time! :-)
I was planning to go to Otaru during my 3 days in Hokkaido, but time was not in my favor. Just have to try again next Feb haha. Nice video as always.
There's always a reason to go back to Japan!! :-) Lots of places on my list that I missed too!
Hi!!! Did you know if there is another famous whisky destilery in Otaru? My first plan to visit Sapporo included a visit to that town because as far as I know there is a famous one there...love whisky 🥃😅😅
The whisky distillery is in the town next door to Otaru - Yoichi. It's not far! That'll be the place to go for you if you love whisky!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoichi_distillery
Pls more Hokkaido vlogs pleaseeeee,,,,
There are a few more on the way! :-)
Hey Amy guess what you now part of my squad welcome to RUclips family.
Don't know if you ever watch Japanese dramas, but there is one called Massan that is loosely based on the history of Nikka whiskey with Rita and Masataka Taketsuru (known as the father of Japanese whiskey). It's like 150 episodes, but each episode are only 15 minutes long.
Interesting, thanks for the rec! :-)
Does it also snow in sapporo in dec 10-13?
It starts snowing in November so yes there should be snow! It might not be as deep as in Feb though as the heaviest snow's in Jan & Feb. Have a great time!
@@cakeswithfaces thank you😃👍👍👍
Hokaido is still snowy?
This was in February (when it's at its snowiest!)
i wanna do my honeymoon in Hokkaido in winter in the future when i get married lol
That'd be amazing! It's a magical place in the snow! :-)
Hello Kitty backpack? Where can we purchase that?
Glad you like it! It's made by Loungefly :-)
For some reason that red symbol on one of the warehouses kept catching my eye. I guess it is just a company logo. But maybe it has some kanji origin - www.flickr.com/photos/37804160@N00/31985783328
I don't know what it means! But maybe someone who does will see this (love it when that happens in the comments!)
本当に北海道来てた？見かけなかったなぁ〜
Yes! I loved it! :-)
Have you -a girl- ever traveled all by yourself in Japan? How safe is it? What about to more remote parts? Like the Oki islands?
I haven't travelled by myself, but a lot of people do (lots have commented on my videos). It's a pretty safe place - crime levels are low, and I've seen videos from people who live in Japan (female) who feel safe to walk around alone at night. I often feel unsafe here in the UK, but in Japan I don't often have that feeling. Can't really say about remote areas but I believe it's the same all around Japan - I've heard that people are friendly in the countryside as well.
Thanks my lil sis and me are going for two weeks during Halloween. It will be fun, but I don't want to go to that one place with her.
@@richardlongoria8661 Is it Sanrio Puroland? :-)
PS Have fun spotting all the cute Halloween stuff! This is from when I went in the first half of October: ruclips.net/video/h37Ck2V9yMU/видео.html
The KFC statue is parodius style