Snow and winter · Hokkaido
Rikubetsu Shibare Festival
りくべつしばれフェスティバル
A two-day festival in the town that records Japan's coldest temperatures, turning extreme cold into the attraction with an overnight endurance sleep-out in ice domes.
Expected window
- Dates
- Sat 06 to Sun 07 Feb 2027
- Date status
- Expected window, from the previous edition or tradition. Not yet confirmed.
- Venue
- Rikubetsu town centre event grounds
- City
- Rikubetsu
- Prefecture
- Hokkaido
- Region
- Hokkaido
- Category
- Snow and winter
- Checked
- Fri 23 Oct 2026 against the official source
About this event
Rikubetsu has held the Shibare Festival since 1982; its signature Human Endurance Challenge puts volunteers to sleep overnight in ice-dome balloon mansions around a central bonfire, with fireworks fired into the clear sub-zero sky. Hokkaido's official tourism site listed the previous edition on 7 and 8 February 2026; 2027 dates had not been published at verification, so the window shown is the matching first full weekend of February.
Booking
Booked around the event: hotels, passes, transfers and eSIM. Booking links for this event are added after the product checks pass.
Official source: https://www.visit-hokkaido.jp/en/event/detail_11035.html. Dates checked Fri 23 Oct 2026.