Asahikawa's snow sculptures

It's easy to find the main festival area. These little guys lead the way.

 Here are some Russian ones.

 This guy is cute.

 There's the snow stage. The top part is decorated with symbols of past snow festivals. I love that fat snowman under 2000.

 And here are all the snow sculptures, seen from a height.

Winnie the Pooh.

 Just a big hand. This is something I'd make.

 Anpanman doing the USA.

I always like sharks.

 The Ghibli automaton.

 A pretty accurate Olaf!

He's double-sided.

 An impressive Dragonball sculpture.

 A Smash Bros. slide.

Ridley was hiding in the back. He was just too big.

A big Asappy.

 Mario and triple D getting in on the USA dance as well.

 Big ol' hippo.

 Another bug fight.

And an ant in the back.

These two must be TV personalities or something.

Don't talk to me or my son ever again.

 Kirby standing on someone who doesn't appreciate it.

 A snow prayer room. There was a carpet inside for praying on.

You can see the stage better in these pictures. In the top left of the building there's an octopus dressed like a takoyaki chef, and on the right there's a dragon. The samurai guy in the middle is some city's mascot, and the thing with big lips at the bottom left is probably also a mascot of some sort.

 Asappy's face is down in the bottom right.

 There were several dance performances.

Lots and lots of tiny snowmen.

 A big wall with Asappy and Yukkirin.

 Here's my video of the light projection. (It's too big upload here.) I didn't record the fireworks, but they were pretty good. We were all craning our necks to see them above the stage.

After the projection, the stage stayed lit up. I managed to get another picture from the higher area.