Hokkaido-Sapporo-YosakoiSoranFestival

Choosing your date to be at Sapporo will get you well rewarded as we found out. We were curious and decided to be in Sapporo during the Yosakoi Soran Festival. Fortunately, it's in June which coincide with Singapore's school holidays. You can google for the dates at https://hokkaidoguide.com/yosakoi-soran-festival/ or just type YosakoiSoranFestival and the dates of the festival will appear on your google search page. 


The Yosakoi Soran Festival is an energetic dancing event based on the Yosakoi Festival of Kochi Prefecture. It was launched in 1992 with 10 teams and 1,000 dancers, it has developed into a major international event attracting some 30,000 dancers from Japan and abroad and approximately 200 million visitors. The main venue is Odori Park, where dances are performed both on stage and as a parade. Visitors can join in the dancing at Waodori Square and visit stalls serving dishes from around the country. Performances are also held at various other parts of Sapporo. Besides the energetic choreography, vibrant costumes and make-up are part of the festival’s attractions as you can see from the pictures that we took below. We took tons of pictures because they were just so good and vibrant and colourful.