Yes. Skiing is the most popular winter sport. About 12 milion Japanese of all ages enjoy skiing. They have excellent ski resorts, about seven hundren of them. People come from all over the world to ski in Japan. The only problem, just as in many other countries, is that it's often difficult to get to the ski areas because of weekend traffic and crowded trains.
There are so many best skis areas in Japan. The skiing in Hokkaido, their northernmost main island, is expecially good. The 1972 winter Olympics were hald there at Sapporo. And the mountains in the northern half of Honshu get a lot of snow. Olympic Winter Games was celebrated in 1998 in Nagano in central Honshu.
Other winter sports are also there, for example, skating is especially popular. A lot of mountain lakes are very good for skating, and there are ice-skating rinks in large cities. Ice hockey and snowboarding are gaining in popularity as winter sports.
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