Asahikawa Taisetsu Crystal Hall, Concert hall and museum in Asahikawa, Japan
Asahikawa Taisetsu Crystal Hall is a social-education complex in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, made up of the Asahikawa City Museum, the Asahikawa City Concert Hall and the Asahikawa International Conference Hall. The concert hall is a shoebox-type room 18 m wide and 30 m deep with a 12 m ceiling, a cypress-glued stage and 597 seats. The conference hall's main room holds up to 300 people and has simultaneous interpretation equipment for six languages.
The building opened in 1993 and has served as an important cultural center in the region since then. Its inclusion in Japan's list of 100 significant concert halls reflects its role in the country's cultural landscape.
The museum's tea room, Seisetsu, was built by Eisa Okada for the 1950 Hokkaido Development Exposition and named by Dantansai of Kyoto's Urasenke school after Hokkaido's snow. The music hall runs a volunteer registration system in which citizens help run concerts, and the Crystal Hall Mate programme fosters music exchange.
The museum is open 9:00–17:00, with last entry at 16:30; it closes on the second and fourth Mondays from October to May (the next day if that Monday is a holiday) and over New Year (29 December–3 January). The hall is about a 10-minute walk or 5-minute drive from JR Asahikawa Station, and buses stop at "Taisetsu Crystal Hall-mae".
The forecourt monument designs the sweat and tears of the pioneers who settled Hokkaido as a snow crystal, which gives the hall its name. The museum's attached tea room, Seisetsu, was built by Eisa Okada for the 1950 Hokkaido Development Exposition and named by Dantansai of Kyoto's Urasenke school.
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