Sapporo Summer Festival

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The Sapporo Summer Festival attracts more than a million visitors to its cavernous beer garden stretching from 5-chome to 11-chome in Odori Park operating for about a month; a Hokkai Bon Odori dance; the Sapporo Bazaar antique fair, the Tanuki Festival along the Tanukikoji shopping street; the Susukino Festival, and numerous other events held in conjunction with it. When it began in 1954, the main site was Nakajima Park and featured a boat festival, bon odori dancing, fireworks display, firefly hunting, and the Tanabata star festival. The venue moved to Odori Park in 1957, and the beer garden first appeared at 6-chome in 1959.

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