For 250,000 yen ($1,600), visitors will sit on a specialized snow plow and participate in the snow clearing process in Sapporo, Japan.
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| Sapporo, Japan, is one of the favorite destinations for Chinese tourists. (Source: Voyapon) |
Some travel agencies and hotels in Japan have expanded their tourism services by offering snow shoveling tours, a recent unique tourist attraction for foreign visitors.
During the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday, mainland China recorded 7.7 million exit and entry trips.
Among overseas travel destinations, Japan emerged as one of the top international destinations for Chinese tourists, with the number doubling compared to last year's Lunar New Year holiday, according to Xinhua News Agency .
In addition to tourism or shopping, a unique activity that has recently emerged in the travel community of the billion-people country is participating in a snow shoveling tour.
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| Tourists experience snow clearing in Sapporo. (Source: QQ.com) |
Decoding the above trend, Japanese media TBS Television said that Tobu Top Tours - a local travel company in Sapporo City, Hokkaido Province, Northern Japan, has promoted snow shoveling tours as a local specialty.
Sapporo, home to two million residents, is famous for being one of the snowiest cities in the world . Here, temperatures are below 0 degrees Celsius for a third of the year and average metres of snow fall each winter.
The tour offered by Tobu Top Tours offers customers the rare opportunity to sit on a specialized snow plow and participate in the snow clearing process.
This experience runs from January to early March, and costs 250,000 Yen ($1,600) for 1-6 people.
On Chinese social media platform RedNote, some inns in Hokkaido have also started offering snow removal services to attract customers.
Tourists expressed their excitement at shoveling snow directly during their visit to Northern Japan.
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| Snow sculptures are lit up during the Sapporo Snow Festival at Odori Park in Hokkaido. (Source: Kyodo) |
Many Chinese tourists shared their first snow shoveling experiences in Japan on RedNote. The posts also highlighted the new trend among young Chinese tourists who value adventure over shopping.
Given the above trend, many people are surprised that this labor-intensive job, which often makes local people feel bored, has become a highly profitable tourism activity for the land of cherry blossoms.
A Japanese observer commented on X: “The first person to come up with this idea is a genius.”
Another said: “The experience of shoveling snow is completely different from getting paid to clear snow, it is a task that requires doing it properly.”
In contrast to the Chinese tourists who eagerly joined the tour, or those who considered it an interesting experience, some of their compatriots commented that these tourists were “silly”.
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