Skateboarding in Japan

One of my favorite hobbies in Japan is to skateboarding around Tokyo. I became interested in skating when I was senior in high school where I had absolutely nothing to do because I was senior and about to graduate. One of my best friends showed me and taught me how to skate, and I became very into it that I brought it back to Japan. Now, skateboarding is awesome and fun especially in Tokyo because you can pretty much ignore traffic signal lights and swirl around the crowed and get point A to B fast. Mainly I use skateboard as a mean of transportation. I go from Shirokanetakanawa station to TUJ or from my work place in Hiroo to TUJ. From my proven fact, I can get to TUJ from Shirokanetakanawa in 2 minutes. Now, skateboarding in Japan is a weird sport or entity in Japanese perspective because it is minority sport, where as in America it is a major sport and almost every children in America would always receive skateboard at some point of child hood. There are many skateboarding park in America provided by city, where as in Japan there are far less parks especially in Tokyo. It is unfortunate that Japan is not providing enough skate parks in Tokyo because I want to ride it in park. However, there is a hope, in a heart of Tokyo in Shibuya, the city is cooperating with Nike to build a skate park in Miyashita Park and its expecting opening is in Mach 2011. I hope that this plan will go well and that I get to ride!!