iReport: After dark at the Sapporo Snow Festival

Wed, 02/15/2012 - 12:35 — Anonymous by Allan CookIn a CNNGo iReport
assignment at the end of January, we asked readers to share their images of
their favorite Asian nighttime travel destinations, as well as the reasons
they picked them. Alan Cook, living in Funabashi, near Tokyo, sent us his
photos along with a word or two on what made him pull out his camera at one
of Japan's most popular after-dark festivals last week. There's no escaping
the mouse, even in Japan's frozen north. iReporter Cook has lived in Japan
for 10 years and he finally made it to the annual Snow Festival in Sapporo,
Hokkaido, this year on the 63rd running of the winter fiesta, which concluded
at the weekend. Taiwan's National Palace Museum somehow looks even better in
ice.read more