Asahikawa Snow Crystal Museum

Walls of icicles behind glass under arched passageways. Everything is snow or snowflakes in this place. Glass doors etched with snowflakes. Handrails with snowflakes on them. Snowflakes on the ceiling. Floor tiles arranged in patterns of hexagons and snowflakes. Macro photographs of every single snowflake. Even the chain-links keeping me out were made of iron snowflakes...

A science section explains, in Japanese, the types of ice crystals and how & why they form. Luckily there were lots of pictures.

A beautiful painted dome named Kita no Sora (Northern Sky)is used for concerts and weddings.

The whole place, although beautiful, has a creepy feeling to it... I kept waiting to turn the corner and be zapped with an icy blast from the ice queen. Straight out of Narnia, this place.

They're proud of their snow in Hokkaido aren't they?