Sapporo Snow Festival Part 4: Nakajima Park
Saturday, February 21, 2015
After Odori Park we went to Nakajima Park which is not part of the snow festival, but there were still some sculptures there. On the signs I saw several made by sports teams and clubs at local schools.
On Wikipedia I found out that Nakajima Park was one of the official snow festival sites for a couple years in the early 90s. I'm kind of glad that it's not anymore because it's not crowded and is a great place to see snow in a pretty setting while in Sapporo.
We walked around the park a little bit and then decided to get lunch from a nearby 7-Eleven. I think I had some ham and egg sandwiches and some string cheese. We took our lunches back into the park. We had seen a gazebo that was clear of snow, but there was someone sitting in there when we got back. So we sat on the little fence in the picture below.
Jonathan dropped a chip on the ground and a bunch of crows came over. It was hilarious, entertaining, and terrifying. At the moment I was mostly just terrified, lol. Those birds have huge beaks.
One especially persistent crow followed us for a while. When it was by itself it was actually pretty cute. Jonathan fed it some bits of a cookie. It was really good at catching!
There was a cross country skiing course around part of the park.
There was a random western-style house. I looked up some stuff about it and found out that it's called Hoheikan. It was built in the 1880's as a place for foreign dignitaries to stay.
Nakajima Park is such a pretty park. We went back again that night and it was my favorite part of the trip.