Tag Archives: Hokkaido
Sapparo TV Tower
History
The TV Tower was built in 1957 and cost 170 Million Yen. (Approximately 1,700,000 USD) It is used as a repeater which is an antenna that receives a signal boosts it and pushes it back out to another area. It isn’t a main broadcast tower.
The signature digital clocks on all 4 sides were introduced [...]
2009 Snow Festival Prep
I recently posted on Hokkaido and talked a bit about the Sapporo Snow Festival with a bit about what it was. Here is a blog post by someone that took a few snapshots of the prep work for it. Please visit the site and look through all the images.
http://thiessentwosomejapan.blogspot.com/2009/02/makings-of-snow-festival.html
Here are a couple interesting ones.
Again please [...]
Quick Summary of Hokkaido
Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Hokkaido and not full detail of everything. Hokkaido is much like a state in the US with a rich past, present, and future to come. I can’t possibly cover everything and getting the tip of everything would [...]
