“About that, we are going to the Sounkyo Hyoubaku Festival today before it ends.”
My eyebrows twitched, and it took me a while before I could respond as my mind tried to comprehend what I just heard. Sounkyo Hyoubaku Festival? I thought to myself. I remembered Kaya and Aunt Claire mentioned it to me before. They said that the festival is a popular destination for tourists, especially during winter, because of the ice structures that were built from the freezing water of the Ishikari River.
The festival is being held in Sounkyo, a range of gorges located in Kamikawa, Hokkaido, and a two and a half hour travel distance in Sapporo. Some of the main highlights of the festival are the ice structures built near the river of Ishikari such as buildings, objects, shrines, and ice slides for
