Japan’s Abandoned Resorts #skiing #japan #tokyo #osaka #japanese #hokkaido #travel #asia #explore

Japan’s Abandoned Resorts #skiing #japan #tokyo #osaka #japanese #hokkaido #travel #asia #explore

Japan’s covered with abandoned ski resorts skiing experienced a huge boom in Japan well that was up until the 1990s after the Japanese economic bubble popped per capita purchasing power shrank thus resulting in the closure of hundreds of ski resorts now today there are around 200 abandoned ski resorts scattered across Japan the island of Hokkaido in the north still has the most ski resorts but it also has some of the most abandoned ski resorts which during the winter are largely covered up the popularity of skiing in Japan was in large part dependent on how accessible it was if you were for example near a major urban center and couldn’t go skiing chances of you flying or driving to another ski resort were a lot lower basically it became more of an elite recreational activity meaning that the downward spiral that the skiing industry in Japan experienced held severe consequences for the remaining ski resorts it only became more and more difficult to survive to even sustain themselves now with Japan’s imminent Dem graphic collapse over the next 50 to 100 years and the lack of GDP growth and as a result disposable income the amount of ski resorts in Japan will likely continue to dwindle