Spectacular Sapporo White Illumination
Sapporo, Japan
Light festivals and light art
What it is
Winter light displays at Sapporo Station's South Exit station square in Sapporo, Japan.
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Dates
These dates come from the official source quoted below.
“札幌駅南口 駅前広場会場 … 開催期間 … 2026年11月20日（金） … ～2027年3月14日（日）”
Before you go
- Where
- Sapporo, Japan
- Hours
- Odori venue 16:30～22:00, until 24:00 on 12月23日～25日; Station South Exit Station Square 16:30～24:00
How we checked
Last checked October 17, 2026 against white-illumination.jp. Before anything appears here, a separate check fetches each source again and confirms that every date we show is in the quoted text.
Notes from the last check
Official Japanese pages confirm the 2026 edition runs 20 November 2026 to 14 March 2027, with the Odori venue ending 25 December and the Ekimae-dori venue ending 11 February; Minami-Ichijo-dori and Akapla dates rest only on a tourism-board page, and the Minami official page could not be retrieved.
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