🥦Mizuo´s Travel Blog🥦No.18 - Kiruna Church, Sweden

👇Please check my previous blog how I got to Kiruna!👇

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Arrived at Kiruna station!

Continuing from my previous blog, we took the night train from Hudiksvall station, and luckily we were in a six-seater carriage (and we were only two of us who could use the whole carriage due to the Covid19 regulations back then which suggested to have social distance with other parties), so we slept well and arrived at Kiruna station around 6 am. I remember that we arrived at the station around 6:00 a.m. The inside of the train was heated and very warm, but as the train headed north towards Kiruna, I started to feel the cold inside the carriage little by little. When we arrived at Kiruna station, the outside temperature was -20 degrees Celsius! 🥶🥶🥶

先のブログの続きを書きます。Hudiksvall駅から夜行列車に乗って、６人乗りの車両を運よく、わたし達２人で乗車し、ぐっすりと寝て早朝６時ごろにKiruna駅に着きました。到着したのは、早朝の６時ごろだったと記憶しています。列車の中は暖房が効いていてとても暖かいのですが、列車がKirunaに向けて北上するにつれて、車両の中も少しづつ寒さを感じてきました。わたしたちがKiruna駅に着いたときは、外気温が－２０度でした！

Arrived at Kiruna train station.

Before we start our trip, I would like to explain again why we wanted to come to Kiruna. There were four main reasons.　😁👍

旅行を始める前に、再度何故わたち達がキルナに来たかったか説明したいと思います。

How come we wanted to come to KIRUNA

1. I want to see how the Sami live.

2. I want to visit the Ice Hotel. 🥶😁

3. I want to ride a dog sled. 🐕

4. I want to see the Northern Lights if possible. 🔦

１．サーミの生活を見てみたい。

２．アイスホテルに行ってみたい。

３．犬ぞりに乗ってみたい。

４．できれば、オーロラを見てみたい。

Well, it was cold! LOL!

The inside of the vehicle got colder and colder as we drove north to Kiruna, "This is not good! LOL!" I was a little surprised, because it was the coldest I had ever experienced. Before the train arrived at the station, I put on the warm clothes I had brought with me. I had brought some clothes that I had bought when I skied in the past, so I put them on.

列車が北上するにつれて寒さを車両内でも感じるようになりました。もちろん車両内は暖房が効いていたのですが、それでも寒さを感じ始め、そろそろキルナに近づいてきているなと肌で感じました。キルナに来たかった理由に４つ挙げたのですが、わたしは「かつてない極寒を経験してみたい！」というのも個人的にはあり、この寒さを経験できたのはとても良かったです。　以前スキーをしたときに購入した、防寒具を着用しキルナの地に着きました！

Snow tree! 🤩👏 Beautiful!!

After arriving at Kiruna station, we walked a bit to the Kiruna bus station. From there, we took a bus to Kiruna city. The first thing that surprised me was the temperature of -20 degrees Celsius. It was the first time in my life that I had experienced such a temperature. When I breathed out, my exhaled breath instantly froze 🌬️🌬️🌬️ and became a pure white breath. And if you looked closely, you could see the diamond dust phenomenon 🧊❄️🧊❄️, where the water vapor in the air glittered like crystal, and it was very beautiful.

It was like this! Diamond dust!👉👉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_dust

Kiruna駅に着いてから、少し歩いてKirunaバスステーションへ向かいました。そこで、バスに乗りKiruna市内へ向かいました。まずびっくりしたのが、－２０度の気温です。わたしは人生で初めて経験する気温でした。息をすると吐き出した息が瞬時に凍結して、真っ白な息になりました。そして、よく見ると空気中の水蒸気がクリスタルのようにキラキラ光る、ダイヤモンドダスト現象が発生していて、とてもきれいでした。

Cafe Safari, Kiruna city. We went to this cafe so many times!! 😁👍

Kiruna square in the central Kiruna. It is cute, isn't' it? 😉

When we arrived in Kiruna, it was still early in the morning and the stores were not open at all. It was still early in the morning when we arrived in Kiruna. When I asked if it would be cloudy today, I was told that the sunrise would be later and the sunset would be very early because we were near the Arctic Circle. I was also surprised to see on the train that Kiruna is almost in the Arctic Circle. No wonder it's dark!

わたち達がKiruna市内に着いたときはまだ早朝で、店はぜんぜん開いていませんでした。そして、７時になっても町が明るくならなくて、「今日は曇りかなぁ？」と話していたら、ここは北極圏に近いから日の出はもっと後で、そして日の入りもとても早いよと教えてもらいました。電車の中でも見てびっくりしたのですが、Kiruna市はほぼ北極圏なのです。暗いわけだよね！

This is where Kiruna located. It is pretty north, right? 😉🌬️❄️🌬️❄️

First, we decided to head to the AirBnB, which we had booked in advance to drop off our luggage. It was so cold that I could feel my body heat draining from my body just standing still. So I felt warmer if I moved my body even a little. And to my surprise, the cold started to chill my fingertips first. I had to be careful not to get too cold. It was indeed -20 degrees Celsius.

まずは荷物を置くために事前に予約していた、AirBnBへ向かうことにしました。寒くて、じっと立っているだけで体から体温がなくなっていくのを感じます。。。だから少しでも体を動かすほうが温かく感じました。そして、びっくりしたのが寒さでまずは指先から冷たくなっていきます。。。冷たくなりすぎないようにと自分でも気を付けないといけないと思いました。さすがに－２０度は寒いです。

Kiruna Church

I took a short break at the AirBnB and had a hot cup of coffee to warm myself up before starting my tour of Kiruna. The stores were still closed in the city, so we decided to go to Kiruna Church first for sightseeing.

Website of Kiruna Church 👉 https://www.kirunalapland.se/en/see-do/kiruna-church/

すこしAirBnBで休憩して、温かいコーヒーを飲んで体を温めてからKiruna観光をはじめまして。市内はまだ店が閉まっていたので、まずはKiruna教会へ観光へ行くことにしました。

This is a short video of Kiruna Church. Well, I know I should edit it, but well, I will learn how to do it later then~~~~. (Maybe editing a video will be something I should do this year. We will see! 😁)

It was after Christmas when we went to Kiruna, so the church was still decorated for Christmas. The church was very beautiful, and the most impressive part was that it was built with wood. When I looked at the ceiling, I saw that it was supported by large wooden beams, which gave it an atmosphere not found in modern churches. I thought it would be rude that tourists to wander around in a place of prayer, so I quickly finished my sightseeing inside the church and decided to walk around the outside of the church.

わたち達がKirunaに行ったのはクリスマス後だったので、教会内はまだクリスマスのデコレーションがありました。教会はとても綺麗で、特に印象的だったのが木造で建築されていました。天井を見ると、大きな木の梁で天井をささえ、近代的な教会にはない雰囲気がありました。祈りの場所でもあり、観光客がうろうろするのは失礼だと思い、教会内での観光はすぐに終えて、教会の外を少し歩いてみることにしました。

The decoration of the church wall is so beautiful!

Information for the church. Well, information board is cute already in snow!

Let's head to city central!

👇 Website for tourism in Kiruna 👇

https://www.kirunalapland.se/en/about-us/tourist-office/

The population of Kiruna is roughly 20,000, so the town itself is not very big. The city itself is not very big, but the life in the city is very fulfilling, and I felt that I would not have any trouble living there. The grocery store we visited today was run by the same company as in Stockholm, and the store was open until around 7:00 p.m., so it was quite convenient.

Kirunaの人口は大体、２００００人だそうで、町自体は決して大きくはありません。しかし、市内での生活はとても充実していて、生活をするうえで困ることは無いと感じました。わたしたちが今日から町までの間には食料品店もストックホルム市内とおなじ会社が店をだしていましたし、店も夜は７時ごろまで経営していて、結構便利でした。

It is a park in central Kiruna 😁😁👏👏❄️❄️❄️

Snow slide! Yay! ❄️❄️❄️

Well, it is so darn obvious, maybe 😁, but when the outside air temperature is -20 degrees Celsius, you will get very cold after about 30 to 45 minutes outside🥶. It gets quite cold.　Maybe I was wearing the wrong clothes, but I had to go into a store every hour or so to warm up 🧁☕, then go outside again to see the sights, and then go into a store again to have a cup of coffee.　　I hope to write more travel blogs about Kiruna in the future.

When I say that "It is cold in Sweden....", then my sambo says this below.

"Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder" (There is no bad weather, only bad clothes.)

Well, this tells everything in Sweden. 😁👏👏👏

あたりまではあるのですが、外気が－２０度になると、外では大体３０分から４５分程度いると体がかなり寒くなってきます。　わたしの着ていた服が悪かったのかもしれませんが、１時間に一回はどこかの店に入って体を温めて、また外に出て観光し、そしてまた店に入ってコーヒーを飲むといった観光でした。　　これからもキルナの続きの旅行ブログを書いていけたらを思います。

極寒の寒さを経験しに行ったわたしですが、あまりにも寒くなり「寒いねー」と言うと、大体このように返されます　👉　 "Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder" （悪い天気などない、服が悪いだけ）

あ、そー－－っすか。