Someone stole Tsuyoshi kiss!!

from 24CHANNEL #019 20100217
Location: Berlin, Tokyo, Niigata

I think Tsuyoshi was in Berlin due to work, so 24CHANNEL staffs couldn't go with him.
So, they sent him a letter (for the next episode of the program?).  Since this is special time, with so many snow around, the staff suggest him to make a "kamakura", so he can have "piroon" thing in this moment. (am I correct? I'm rather confused here^^')

Kamakura is held during the winter. Kamakura means Snow Hut and it is celebrated in Yokote. The children build small round huts of snow, where the children play and eat. They cover the floor with thick straw mat called tatami and put candles on a shelf that is craved into a wall. The girls take their shoe off and then put on slippers and wrap themselves with warm quilts. The fireplace is for cooking soup or boiling water for tea. They heat small rice cakes over a little charcoal stove. Parents or neighbors visit them. They offer the guests rice cakes and sips of tea or rice wine. Then the visitors leaves coins or fruits for return. (source)

 

(http://www.jnto.go.jp/yjw/eng/local_event_th.html)

For a start, they joke about Snow Country?  It's mean this Snow Country. So, to have this done, they went to Minamiuonuma city at Niigata prefecture, one of the Snow Country in Japan, at Muikamachi onsen.
They met this guy (...), in which he has a kamakura, a standard one I suppose.
note: It's 3-4℃
I can't imagine how to live in those snow.  Surrounding by all white looks scary to me, already. The government surely has to give fully support for their citizen who live in the snow country. The electricity that almost 24 hours on, I supposed.  The heater. The food and water supply, and other primary things *I'm still trying to imagine all that*

 

Our host has been thinking about making a "sankaku kamakura".  So, they began.
First is to draw the area on the snow using the foot.  Second, pile up the snow.  Third, dig the hole.

Dekitaa! It took 4 hours to finish it. adding some more touch and walaa.. sankaku kamakura cafe~

Before that, they enter the hotel to make "Muikamachi mochi tsuki"...

and have the mochi inside sankaku kamakura cafe xD


Ending..
Tsuyoshi made the child convulsed in a laughter..

and he/she gave him a kiss on the lips!^^'



credit
I would like to thank rainbow_dragon for the narration, so I can have better understanding the kanji and such :)

http://minamiuonuma.tv/pc/English/index.php/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochi

Vocabulary
かまくら (kamakura) = pillow (literally)
雪国 (yukikuni) - snow country

*edited*
It seems that this is the site of the hotel?  They wrote something regarding sankaku kamakura.