Sapporo Art Park

Sapporo Art Park is an outdoor modern art park that was created to allow enjoyment of art in an outdoor setting. The park is truly meant to be enjoyed during the summer and spring, but the Japanese know never to miss out on an opportunity so they temporarily open it in the winter. It's free (normally it costs 600 yen) but the trick is you have to wear snowshoes. Additionally the usual warning of "don't rise to the work" (AKA - don't touch the statues) is null and void during the winter time.

Luckily there was an English pamphlet that instructed me on the correct application of the snowshoes. I thought I had it all figured out, but it turns out that I had no clue and was literally soaked when I was done because the snowshoes either didn't work or I was wearing them wrong. 

Seeing the statues in the snow was actually pretty awesome, my favorite part being all the naked people enjoying their time in frigid outdoors. 

What were they looking at?

Nothing that interesting. 

She's working it, girl.

On to the REAL modern art aspect of the outdoor park. I was very curious to see what some of these things looked like without snow covering them. What did they mean? Were they all different interpretations of the human experience? Or were they just a bunch of stuff put together to look frightening, confusing or erotic? The world may never know, unless you're a modern art connoisseur or someone who reads Japanese. 

That's the view from underneath her.. she looks quite scared.

So many questions, so little answers. The Japanese website can be visited here. To get there, take the Nanboku line all the way to its end station (Makomanai Station). There, you can take the 102 bus to the Art Park (about 270 yen each way).