Sapporo
Japan’s winter sports destination, Sapporo, capital of the island of Hokkaido, offers ski slopes within its city limits during the freezing winter months (December and January in particular). The cherry on top of a winter holiday in Sapporo is the annual snow festival, when a spectacular selection of massive ice sculptures fill Odori Park. Allmore year round Sapporo is renowned as the best place in Japan to eat, drink and make merry, with a collection of excellent restaurants, lively bars and nightclubs.