In cold and snowy regions, the amounts of children’s physical activities tend to decline in winter seasons. Although there are many reports that tried to pursue what kind of factors have affected children’s physical activities in the cold regions, there were no reports that consider the children’s methods of going to kindergarten in winter. The purpose of this study was to analyze how the way to go to kindergarten affects on children’s amount of physical activities and their daily life in the kindergarten. 58 children (39 boys and 19 girls, 4–5 years old) participated in this study. Participants were divided to two groups; one was the walking group (coming to kindergarten by walking alone, or partial walking and a bus) and another was the car-using group (coming to the kindergarten by parents’ car). In order to measure the amount of physical activities, their number of steps was counted by pedometers in their kindergarten life. Their number of steps was recorded every hour from the start of kindergarten until the end. ANCOVA (covariates: sex) was used to compare the total number of steps of two groups. As a result, the total numbers of steps of walking group were significantly higher than the number of steps of the car-using group. Moreover, the steps of walking group had few changes in the afternoon, but the steps of car-using group decreased in the afternoon. According to these results, the way of commuting to kindergarten in winter could affect kindergarteners’ total amount of physical activities and their life styles in the kindergarten.
