When humans team up with nature to create something, it becomes more intriguing. The Lake Shikotsu ice festival is a perfect example of this. Hokkaido's crystal clear water lake serves as the primary source for crafting marvelous ice sculptures.

Yes, Chizu! "Okay, it's decided! ｣

Tsudome Lunch Today is the monthly community cafeteria day. The place is written as Shumu but called Tsudome It is held in the Social Welfare Council building and beloved by the nickname Tsudome Lunch. Today's menu is tsukemen (dipping noodles)! Thick noodles catch the savory broth perfectly. For dessert we served chocolate brownies in honor of Valentine’s Day. Next month is Wednesday, March 13! Thank you, as always, for the delicious lunch!

Nature creates some of the astonishing wonders just like this. This huge snow wall is breathtakingly stunning. This time I visited lake shikotsu ice festival. Amazingly beautiful.

Lamps The 50th anniversary of the Shimokawa Ice Candle Museum in Shimokawa Town, Hokkaido At the venue, many ice candles lit up the feet, and the hearts were warmly lit so as not to feel the freezing cold sky I took a picture with a cloth filter and impressed with the light of an ice candle

■━━━━━━━□ ┃ Event Information ┃ □━━━━━━━■ ━━━━━━━━━━━*＼Gather at Sapporo Chikaho this weekend!／*━━━━━━━━━━━ “Ferry PR Event” 📅Date and Time: Saturday, February 17, 2024 – Sunday, February 18, 2024, 10:00 – 17:00 🎈Venue: Sapporo Underground Pedestrian Space Rest Space, near Ground Exit No. 9 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow the Tomakomai Port Ferry Promotion Council on Instagram/Facebook to enter a raffle you can join! 🥳 There will also be balloon giveaways and a Tomachop merchandise lottery, so please come to Chikaho! ✨ For details, see the Tomakomai Port Ferry Promotion Council’s Instagram/Facebook! 💻

Ski Class In Hokkaido, there are regions where students have ski lessons during physical education class. At the elementary and junior high schools in Nishiokoppe Village, teachers and students come here together to ski. They leave their skis at the ski resort lodge. The lifts in Nishiokoppe use a slightly tricky style: you hold the handle with one hand and press the bar against your waist as you go up. It’s surprising to see some elementary school students riding them smoothly. Inside the lodge, there is an attendant who operates the lift and handles other duties.

Otaru snow lantern path festivals is a very famous winter tourist spot in hokkaido. Many many local people worked volunteerily to maintain the beauty of the pathway. The canal also illuminated during the festival. Its one of my memorable trip to hokkaido.

Yesterday was the last day, so I went to the "Sapporo Yuki Festival" It's soothing to look at snow sculptures of characters you know and cute characters. If you take a leisurely lap around Odori Park, it will take about an hour Boulevard Park is wide and long!

"Snack on~! ｣ I was appealing while lying down!

Kisuke: "Come on~! ｣ Unlike adult animals, they were wrestling very cutely!

Once again, we would like to introduce our favorite photos of the dolphin keepers! Following the #cocoa introduced last time, this time it is 🍼 bottlenose dolphin #milk It is the most veteran dolphin in the marine park!

“Takutetsu Kinokotan,” a log-grown shiitake cultivation and agri-tourism farm slated to open this spring in Shintoku, will be exhibited tomorrow, Saturday, February 10, at “INTERNATIONAL FESTA in TOKACHI 2024” held at Obihiro’s Mori no Koryukan and the JACA Hokkaido Center (Obihiro). At the venue, visitors can sample and experience foods, music, and costumes from around the world, and enjoy experiences that let you feel the world right here in Tokachi. Please come and support Takutetsu Kinokotan as it embarks this spring on a new journey into cultivation and tourism!

From February, we have been reprinting and selling popular menus at Restaurant Ribe. The menu for this winter reprint is "Enma no Namida no Sour Hot Tub Noodles". It is topped with plenty of winter vegetables burdock, green onions, and fried maitake mushrooms, and is one dish that adds spiciness with enma no namida. It is on sale for a limited time, but please enjoy it.

LIVING AT NOBORIBETSU MARINE PARK NIXE It's the dorsal fin of a dolphin! As the name suggests, the shape is like a sickle that cuts grass It was 🐬 named Dolphin because of its resemblance

I spotted someone cycling across the Shikaribetsu Pass! They’re a university student from Kanagawa Prefecture planning to ride from Kushiro to Asahikawa over ten days. They’ll stay in hotels along the way but also plan to camp at times. I heard they’re riding with studded tires—ride safely and enjoy winter in Hokkaido until the end of the journey.

Chocolat that doesn't come home easily after athletics If you take a peek softly... Chocolat: "I'm going to be a wizard."

I visited Hokkaido Avant in Kutcharo, Shintoku Town. Sauna enthusiasts who had come from Tokyo, Kyoto, and Oita, including members of the Sauna Research Group from Tokyo, took turns cooling down after their saunas by plunging into a hole cut in the frozen lake. Shouts that sounded like cheers or excitement echoed across the quiet lake. After cooling down, they enjoyed a peaceful time on an ice carousel.

Wood learning at the nursery! At the end of January, we held a wood-learning program at a nursery. Previously, we published an experimental report about making crafts from milk carton paper fibers. Here is a quick look at the children's creations. Simply touching the fluffy paper fibers floating in the water filled the room with joyful laughter.

⛸️ The program for the Tomakomai Skate Festa has been announced ⛸️ The winter festival "Tomakomai Skate Festa" returns this year! 🥳 Enjoy a full lineup of attractions, including the traditional "shibare-yaki," a snowy slide, and stage shows! ✨ Let the Skate Festa blow the cold away! 🌞 ━━━*\58th Tomakomai Skate Festa/*━━━ Dates: Saturday, February 10, 2024 and Sunday, February 11, 2024 Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Location: Chuo Park, 2-3 Wakakusa-cho, Tomakomai ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Sleeping in the sun ☀🐻 in the same pose　 They were good friends Sarah and Eph

Throwing snow every day is very hard, but... I am healed by ^^ this scenery that can be seen in between snow removal

My daughter takes the school bus every morning to school in a village 3 kilometers away! It is such a morning scene, the ^^ wall of snow removal is taller ^^ than the height

Bye-bye! The appearance of 🐻 a large snow bear Would you like to make winter memories? * Come and play before it 😆 melts

The most important scenery in Japan is the enthusiasm and attentive spirit of the people, and this photo shows the dedicated spirit of the operators at Sapporo Station in Hokkaido.

Melting Milk Cartons The other day I happened upon an experimental setup. Many milk cartons sat submerged in a pot. A staff member promoting wood education was peeling them off. At first I wondered what they were peeling. They were removing only the plastic film from the outside of the milk cartons so they could use the inner fibers. They silently peeled the warmed, water-soaked cartons and tore them into small pieces. The torn paper fibers went into a blender with water to be broken down even further. It looked a bit like porridge... Then, they took a handful of the pulpy fibers soaked in plenty of water and scooped them up with a poi net like those used for goldfish scooping. After scooping, they removed the excess water and gave the poi a sharp shake, causing the pulp to come away cleanly from the net. Once dried, the result is a perfectly round piece. You can also press in yarn, leaves, or other materials to create an original work.

[Con stove con Come on! ] Okhotsk] has begun. "Con Stove Con Ozora Illumination" is lit at "Lake Abashiri Memanbetsu Lake Shore". Alola locon and locon will color ♪♪ the fantastic lakeside at night Not only Alola Locon, but also many friends have gathered, so please look forward ♬♬ to seeing what kind of friends are there at the venue A kitchen car will also be coming to the venue, so I'm looking forward to this as well~. Ladies and gentlemen, please ♪♪ come and meet the tranquil lakeside and energetic Pokemon ■ Period: Until February 25 Sun ■ Lighting time: 16 o'clock ~ 20 o'clock #Ozora Town #Memanbetsu #Higashimokoto #Memanbetsu Lake Shore #Lake Abashiri #Lakeside #Illumination #Pokémon #Pokémon Manhole #Con Con Lokon #Oideyo Okhotsk #Alola Lokon #Lokon #Hokkaido Push Pokémon #Pokémon Daisuki Club

February 3rd is Setsubun Day 👹 So, with 📷 the demon's face Have you eaten mamemaki bean throwing Ehomaki?

On Sunday, February 11, "Look! Let's make it! Nyx's Friends." There are a total of 7 types of paper crafts that can be made! They are king penguins, gentoo penguins, common dolphins, squirt seals, and sand tiger sharks. King Penguins and Gentoo Penguins are also available in easy-to-make versions for children. Please be assured that not only children, but also students and staff will help. Also, those who want to try crafts for the first time in a long time are also welcome! We will prepare a lot of them, so please join us.

This time, the keepers in charge of dolphins are their favorite I would like to introduce you to the photos! Next is #Cocoa ✨ The charm point is that you always have your mouth open!