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Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Team Replicates Temple In Snow For Sapporo Winter Festival

Members of a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force unit based in Hokkaido Prefecture have shown off their icy construction skills by molding together a 13-meter-tall replica of a famed temple entirely out of ice and snow in Sapporo.Video was shot on February 5, 2017, Japan. The team of 123 members spent a month replicating the Chukondo hall of Kofukuji temple in Nara out of 4,500 frozen pieces made from enough snow to fill the beds of 600 5-ton trucks. Measuring 22 meters in width and 21 meters in depth, the ice temple forms part of the Sapporo Snow Festival, a popular tourist draw.
Members of a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force unit based in Hokkaido Prefecture have shown off their icy construction skills by molding together a 13-meter-tall replica of a famed temple entirely out of ice and snow in Sapporo.Video was shot on February 5, 2017, Japan. The team of 123 members spent a month replicating the Chukondo hall of Kofukuji temple in Nara out of 4,500 frozen pieces made from enough snow to fill the beds of 600 5-ton trucks. Measuring 22 meters in width and 21 meters in depth, the ice temple forms part of the Sapporo Snow Festival, a popular tourist draw.
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Credit:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
Editorial #:
641316582
Collection:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
Date created:
February 05, 2017
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Clip length:
00:01:18:10
Location:
Sapporo, Japan
Mastered to:
QuickTime 8-bit Photo-JPEG HD 1920x1080 29.97p
Source:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
Object name:
20170208sapporomaking.mov