Sapporo, a City Embraced by NatureSapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido, is the largest city north of Tokyo. Best known for Sapporo beer and the annual Sapporo Snow Festival that showcases impressive snow sculptures that measure over than 10 meters in height, this city is full of and surrounded by rich nature. The great outdoors can be reached in just a few minutes from the heart of the city. In fact, there are six ski resorts around Sapporo, a legacy of the 1972 Winter Olympics that were hosted here. You could say that Sapporo is an urban snow resort – nowhere else in the world are the ski sl…