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The Alpha Resort Tomamu in the Shimukappu village of Hokkaido Island in Japan builds and opens an ice hotel every year. [12] It may be Japan's first ice hotel, and everything in it is constructed from ice. [12] [13] The hotel interiors are typically −3 to −5 °C. Guests dine on ice tables and sit on ice chairs covered with sheepskin.
The entire hotel is made out of snow and ice blocks from the Torne River; even the glasses in the bar are made of ice.Each spring, around March, Icehotel harvests tons of ice from the frozen Torne River and stores it in a nearby production hall with room for over 900 t (990 short tons) of ice and 27,000 t (30,000 short tons) of snow.
The ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi Kiruna is located in the north of Sweden, 145 kilometres (90 mi) north of the Arctic Circle . The city centre is built on the Haukavaara hill at an altitude of 530 m, high above the Torne river to the north and the Kalix River to the south.
Despite its varying configurations, the snow castle has a few recurring elements: a chapel, a restaurant and a hotel. The SnowRestaurant [1] has ice tables and seats covered with reindeer fur, as well as ice sculptures. The ecumenical SnowChapel [1] with 50–100 seats has seen numerous weddings of couples from as far away as Japan and Hong Kong.
The following is a list of cities and towns (Finnish: kaupunki, Swedish: stad) in Finland.[a] The basic administrative unit of Finland is municipality.Since 1977, there is no legal difference between towns and municipalities, [1] and a municipality can independently decide to call itself a city or town if it considers that it meets the requirements of an urban settlement. [2]
Levi is a fell located in Finnish Lapland, and the largest ski resort in Finland. [1] The resort is located in the village of Sirkka, Kittilä municipality and is served by Kittilä Airport and Kolari railway station. At a latitude of 67.8° north, it is located approximately 170 km (110 mi) north of the Arctic Circle.