Snow Village

Here are some photos of the magnificent Furano Winter Village. This building/structure is made entirely out of snow/ice with the incorporated gondola here and there. The doors are actually made of wood, but mounted in ice, and the entire structure connects on one end of a hall to a small portable type building that is probably heated or something. I took these pictures a while back, in January, but I think the structure is still there now, and I believe the bar is serving currently. The drinks are served in ice glasses any you can drink on the ice counter while sitting on the ice stools. This Snow Village is located just at the bottom of the Kitanomine side ski hill. No more to write for now, but here are a few more pictures. Enjoy:)
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OK, the date is Monday the 13th of March. I have returned to write a little more and fix the spacing of the pictures (a little). This structure, the snow village, is really quite cool. Inside it has certain places where there are holes in the ceiling or this places to let in light. The ceiling has things carved into it also. There are little "windows" where the ice is thin, and the window sills are used for drinks, or some artistic design. The barstools are wood-topped (so your butt doesn't freeze) but made out of ice/snow. There is even a TV set up in there. There is a bench with a wooden seat and ice supports that faces a snow/ice carved TV cove. The TV, is obviously not constructed out of ice, but it sits in there and looks just like it belongs.

Outside the bar area there is a smaller alcove that it like a giant gazebo with gondola cars in each side of the hexagonal structure. These were cute little places to sit for a while. The inside also had some artwork displayed at the time that I was there, so that is in some of the pictures.