Sapporo Snow Festival" Begins
200 ice and snow statues lined up
February 6, 2017, Sapporo, Japan - A boy plays on the snow slide at the annual Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo in Japan's nortern island of Hokkaido on Monday, February 6, 2017. The week-long snow festival started through through February 12 and over 2.5 million people are expecting to visit the festival. (Photo by Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO) LWX -ytd-