Jukkasjärvi has less than 600 people, and officially is part of the Kiruna municipality. In addition to the Ice Hotel, it has an old wooden church and a reindeer station/market which now seems to mostly be a Sami cultural interpretive centre for tourists. The community sits at the end of the lake, and so was the original site for a village (not Kiruna, the draw of the mine is more recent) as well as seasonal gatherings of nomadic reindeer herders. It made for a short extra stop after the ice hotel, but one which added some insight into the history of the North.