friend Chiaki and we are here for the Sapporo Snow Festival! It is so cold as you can

tell. I'm very happy to have this fluffy scarf that I got in my fukubukuro!

We're also joined by Chris and Pete Donaldson, and Natsuki and his wife are here

as well. Hi Natsuki! and we're currently exploring

the food area, there are so many food stalls. Hokkaido is famous for lots of

different foods like potatoes, dairy products, ramen, what else...

corn, crabs, everything! All the foods of Japan. They have a kabocha dango

pumpkin rice ball - dango shiruko! Yeah red bean soup! I love it. It's a

dessert so yeah

it looks so warm I never have pumpkin dango

it kinda tastes like pumpkin pie, it's so good! it's not too

sweet you know if you're kind of iffy about trying the red bean paste that is

in a lot of Japanese desserts I think oshiruko is a good place to start

because they mix it with hot water it's kind of watered down and it's really

yummy and I feel like you guys would all really like it give it up we've got an

ice igloo smoking lounge and Natsuki is excited

so the main attraction of this festival are the ice and snow sculptures and

they're just absolutely amazing when it turns to night they do like a projection

light show on them which is really it took 3650 people

to build it 28 days maple syrup after sweet Christmas in England

should I know in London you cannot get hectic oh yes but detective but

Amazake! My favourite

She's gonna try amazake for the first time I feel like it for sure

it's sweet yeah sweet but not too sweet kind of like rice and sugar

okay

Nice right? yeah that's like sweet rice

How is it?

does it taste like beer? Light light

Lighter and sweet

it's like they mixed beer with some kind of blueberry pop

Look at this little train! You can ride it through the ice sculptures

Cup noodle, and this guy

Ah it's kaonashi but again he's kind of covered in snow can't really see him

Natsuki's lining up for the kiddy slide

there's one snack I need to warn you guys about it's called long potato but

it's like potatoes sugar and cake but in a gross way

He looks so sad, why's he so sad?

We're back, it's night time now we took a little rest in the hotel it was so cool we kind of needed to warm

up do not underestimate how cold it is in Hokkaido it is very different than the

rest of Japan even living in Iwate Prefecture which is quite up north this

feels so cool so yeah we're gonna check out the festival at night time it see

what it looks like they do lots of like light-up displays and the TV tower

Look they're still carving some sculptures here it's cool to watch them we couldn't

tell what this was before because it was covered in snow but it looks like

somebody's finally come and cleared the statues of all the fresh snow from

yesterday so that's good we can finally see what they are

it looks like they've set up a mobile Pokemon Center for the Sapporo Snow

Festival it's really cool they're selling plushies and stuff

They're closed at the moment unfortunately I can't go inside but can take a peek

we're just walking down the street to go get some dinner

this shrine looks so pretty in the snow so we have here fried octopus balls the

food of Osaka some wonderful viewers who have now left the restaurant

Actually bought this for us as a present but there's a catch one of the takoyaki in

here is filled with karashi - spicy unpleasantly tasting mustard and so one

of us at the table here will die. three two one so

badly timed

Normal. Normal? Normal face.

I'm gonna go I'm gonna go next and I'm gonna put a

little England flag a little Britain flag

Did you just say England frag?

I'm gonna say goodnight here. We're going back to our hotel to warm up. It's so

cold! Jesus. We just got outside from the restaurant we've only been outside 30

seconds my legs are already painfully freezing. Right now we're in the Susukino District

of sapporo it's kind of like the downtown it really reminds me

of Osaka - it's really cool at nighttime! I hope you guys enjoyed the vlog make sure

to go check out Chiaki on YouTube. Her videos are in Japanese but maybe you guys

could practice your Japanese skills! And I will link everybody's Instagram and

stuff down below as well. Thanks for watching guys!