Where is this?

Ahhh...that's more like it....the "ice hotel" thingy that Teddy picked up from the Hiragana, was a good clue

 

ok..another clue...

This is at the ports entrance...

 

Soon Raggi comes with the answer... Two lighthouses are just too easy for him

Ice hotel.. this one is landlocked. But very nice view..

 

I think i prefer your views

 

I think I found it...

 

Great Teddy!!! And the name?

 

Rishiri island.. Not sure how the towns limits are drawn but believe it's Oshidomari just aside of Rishinfuji..
What's most embarrashing of my part is the fact that I've actually seen that #¤%%& island from neigboring Wakkanai just 40km away..
Eventually got the better clues of your thought about the closenes of Russia and picture #2 with much more "northern looks" than #1

 

Yes the first picture has shown too much vegetation, so I thought it is the southern coast (Pacific).

There is the ferry in your picture, so it should be Rishirifuji.



Anyway that was a hard nut to crack, my compliments!

(and the only Kanji I know is, of course, this one 隼)

 

Bugger....i gave away too much in the second picture.....you're more cunning than a fox who is professor of cunning at oxford university!!!

 

Jaaa,

you thought we "North lights" live under stones, hääh? And what means my Kanji?


Teddy, your turn..........

 

As for 隼 I have a 2 thick paper dictionaries. It is not in any of them.

My electronic dictionary, which has more than the "standard" 1945 Joyo kanji, around 3~4000, not in this either. So, must be a rare one.

 

Hahh,

got YOU on a kanji ?

 

Nor in my P G O'Neill's dictionary.. Got to be some older one. Could be a combination of small bird & noon, so it could be "early bird" Believe some of our Chinese friends could help with this..

A new one.. To stay in the subject and to add a bit sport and rice... who are these gentlemans?

 

It's FALCON..
http://www.cjvlang.com/big5/Birds/falcon.html

 

The kanji character in all my dictionaries has the little flick, in the centre, above the upper horizontal line, sloping the opposite way, hence i wasn't sure if it was a falcon.

Changes in direction of the little 'flick' from left to right and right to left can make a big difference in definition....so I err'd on the side of caution.

However, Richard informs it is indeed, a falcon.