A fantastic and beautiful world like a movie
The Tsunan Snow Festival is a snow festival held in Tsunan Town, Niigata Prefecture, one of Japan’s largest snowfall areas.
The sight of the gentle and beautiful sky lanterns flying up and down in the sky is like entering the magical world of the Disney movie Rapunzel.
The Tsunan Snow Festival is an annual snow festival held in Tsunan Town, Niigata Prefecture, and started with the aim of revitalizing Tsunan Station. An event where you can experience the fun of snow and the beauty of snow in Tsunan-cho, one of Japan’s largest snowfall areas. There are two venues: the “New Greenpia Tsunan Venue” (the ski slope) and the “Owarino Special Venue” in the center of the city.
By the way, please note that this is a one-day event (excluding the previous night festival).
The Lantern Festival held in Thailand and Taiwan is famous, but the “Sky Lantern” held at the Tsunan Snow Festival has also become known in Japan. It is very popular as an event where you can experience a fantastic and beautiful world like a movie.
Tsunan Town in Niigata Prefecture, a heavy snowfall area with more than 3 meters of snow in winter. More than 10,000 people visit the “Tsunan Snow Festival” held every March here. A lantern carrying the participants’ wishes is launched toward the winter night sky.
Access
Introducing access to Tsunan Yuki Matsuri venue. If you are going from Tokyo, take the Joetsu Shinkansen and get off at Echigo-Yuzawa Station. Take the Nanetsu sightseeing bus from Echigoyuzawa Station to Tsunan Town Hall. There is a shuttle bus from Tsunan Town Hall to the venue, New Greenpia Tsunan, so please board it.
Point!
It is free to watch, but the fee varies depending on the location of the parking lot and the date of the event.
The ticket includes a Sky Lantern voucher and a parking lot ticket.
*Eve festival (March 13) ticket [New Green Pier Tsunan venue parking lot] ¥ 3,000 (tax included)
*Main festival (March 14) ticket [New Green Pier Tsunan venue parking lot] ¥ 11,500 (tax included)
*Main Festival (March 14) Ticket [Temporary Parking Lot] ¥ 6,500 (tax included)
Charms and Highlights of Tsunan Yuki Matsuri (Tsunan Snow Festival)
”SNOW WAVE” and “Sky Lantern”
Tsunan Town in Niigata Prefecture is one of the most heavy snowy areas in Japan. “Tsunan Yuki Matsuri” (Tsunan Snow Festival) was born from the wisdom that people who fought against the heavy snow coexisted with snow and changed their hardships to pleasure. The snow festival is held around March 10 every year, and it will be held in the two-day schedule of Eve of Festival and Main Festival. The venue is New Greenpia Tsunan and Owarino special venue. At the New Greenpia venue, the largest snowboard straight jumping competition in the country (SNOW WAVE) will be held. Other traditional events such as traditional Dorokujin-yaki (big torches) and Tengu (goblin) will also showcase the culture of the snow country. At the Owarino special venue, street stalls line up, there are stage events by guests and events that can be played with parents and children, making the whole venue a lively atmosphere. And at night, the biggest event of the Tsunan Snow Festival, “Sky Lantern” will be launched. The sky lantern came to be launched from 2012. Sky lantern is a type of hot air balloon launched at festivals such as Thailand and China. It became known also by appearing in the scene of the Disney movie “Tangled”. As a custom of praying for state of perfect health, couple and lovers add messages and deliver prayers to heaven. General public participants can also fly it, so why don’t you join them with a wish and launch it?
The heaviest snowfall place in the world
It is said that Tsunan town is one of the heaviest snowfall places in the world. Tsunan town is located in Nakauonuma-gun, Niigata, and is also famous as a rice granary.
Enjoy abundant snow
To enjoy abundant snow, The festival mainly on two as “Snowboarding tournament” and “the sky lantern” was began.
That is “Tsunan Snow Festival”.
Coexistence with snow
Tsunan-machi of the heavy snowfall covered by snow more than 3m. In the village of the cold winter, this festival celebrates the coming of warm spring with the end of winter.
The people who live in this area changed the way their think that “snow” is from an object of fighting to an object of coexistence. Then this event was born.
As for the sky lantern used for a means of communication 770 years ago, it became a messenger of the light to send a wish to the sky now.
What do you wish for?
The sky lantern of more than 2,000 color romantically a winter night sky at the Tsunan Snow Festival.
What do you wish for?
Information(Access, Price/Charge, Tel, Address, Official site, etc.)
| Name: | Tsunan Yuki Matsuri (Tsunan Snow Festival) |
| Adresse: | Akinari 12300 Nakauonumagun Tsunanmachi, Niigata 949-8313 Japan |
| Access: | JR Iiyama-sen Line “Tsunan-eki” station (30 minutes by car) |
| Tel: | (+81) 25-765-5585 (Tsunan Snow Festival Executive Committee) |
| Price/Charge: | It is free to watch, but the fee varies depending on the location of the parking lot and the date of the event. The ticket includes a Sky Lantern voucher and a parking lot ticket. *Eve festival (March 13) ticket [New Green Pier Tsunan venue parking lot] ¥ 3,000 (tax included) *Main festival (March 14) ticket [New Green Pier Tsunan venue parking lot] ¥ 11,500 (tax included) *Main Festival (March 14) Ticket [Temporary Parking Lot] ¥ 6,500 (tax included) Please refer the official web page. |
| Official site: | https://snowfes.info |
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