Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival: Winter Wonderland
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6 Ratings
Sapporo

Discover Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival’s enchanting night tour with ice sculptures, illuminations, and weekend fireworks. Perfect winter adventure for the whole family.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Travel Hokkaido - Our guide will meet you at this convenient city centre location. We can provide drops to Sapporo, Odori or Susukino Station.
  • Chitose Shikotsu Lake Hyoto Matsuri - One of our favourite local festivals, we love Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival, which sees a variety of natural sculptures created by the local people. Ice caverns, ice…
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What's Included
  • Driver/guide
  • Round-trip shared transfer
  • Local taxes
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
Additional Information

Enjoy magical winter Hokkaido at Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival. Every year, Lake Shikotsu creates the most stunning local festival using sprayed water from the lake itself. There is fun for all the family, including ice sculptures, ice buildings, outdoor displays, and evening illuminations. If you make the trip on the weekends, then there are also…

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Location
Doutor
When you are in the main JR Train Station, please use the North Exit on the East ticket gate side. You will then see then see a Doutor Coffee next to this exit, with the charter bus carpark and bus stops beyond, and our guide will be waiting with a Travel Hokkaido sign.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Apurplekiwi
Feb 12, 2020
Lake Shikotsu ice festival night tour - We went to the Lake Shikotsu ice festival night tour and was blown away with the sculptures and lighting. Our bus driving drove very well in the weather conditions! Great place to take your kids as they have a "ice rink" for children only and they also have a SLIDE MADE OF ICE 🤯. This slide is fun for both adults and kids. I loved the fact you could actually walk though the sculptures. The lighting was superb. Our ravel guide was also awesome just letting us explore in our own time and gave us a time and place to meet
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Alexiium
Feb 11, 2020
Amazing and fun! - It was really nice and beautiful to see and the tour itself was lots of fun as well! I would definitely recommend going because it's amazing to visit especially at night when all the lights glow brighter and the scenery seems magical
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Marked73
Feb 10, 2020
Amazing and worthwhile visit - A great ice festival to visit if you're in Sapporo for the snow festival. We went there at night when all the ice sculptures were beautifully lit up and it was really impressive. Great place to take the kids, highly recommend it!
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Carolm535
Feb 10, 2020
Beautiful creative artistry - Our night trip to the Lake Shikotsu ice festival was cosy warm and tour fantastic, as was our guide and driver who managed well with the heavy snow which caused a small delay in arrival. There was beautiful creative artistry in ice and lights and I'd recommend a visit to this festival with Travel Hokkaido.
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Frozentourist
Feb 10, 2020
Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival - Tiana was a great guide for the Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival (Night tour) and created a relaxed and friendly atmosphere for the entire group. Our driver was amazing, driving through difficult conditions due to weather and traffic congestion (tbh we found out later...we didn't even know the weather was a problem as it was totally new to us?!). We really enjoyed the Ice Festival and laughing at those of us who were brave enough to go down the ice slide! I would def recommend!
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Emilyt865
Feb 20, 2019
Magical tour, highlight of my stay in Hokkaido - I really enjoyed visiting the Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival with Travel Hokkaido. Peta and O-Chan were so friendly and made me feel very welcome, which I really appreciated as a solo traveller. The festival itself was small but stunning and I actually preferred it over the larger festivals such as the Sapporo Snow Festival. A must-see for anyone in Hokkaido during the festival season.
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