The Sapporo Snow Festival -Hokkaido Japan doesn't get much more corporate and cheesy than this. What started out fifty years ago as some local citizens making snow sculptures in Odori Park has turned into Sapporo's biggest tourist attraction. The only thing that this festival has more of than snow, is corporate advertising. It's faux art and not worth seeing. Mt. Fuji -Shizuoka, Yamanashi, Prefectures Buy your Cup Noodle at the bottom of the mountain because it costs 500 yen at the top.
Mt. Fuji is commercial, crowded and polluted.
There are traffic jams of hikers all the time and the loose volcanic rock is treacherous. Mt. Fuji is beautiful when seen from afar, but when you're on top of it, mostly you see vending machines, ugly buildings, and the urban sprawl that surrounds it. Although efforts have been made in recent years to clean it up, a large proportion of the people who climb the mountain are disappointed. You see it in every tourist brochure, and every souvenir shop within fifty kilometres of the place is filled with tens of thousands of monkey-related souvenirs. The problem is that the sculpture is tiny, part of a long mural, and you would almost certainly miss it if you weren't really searching for it.