A hotel and a chapel housed in dome-shaped structures made from single, seamless pieces of ice opened Tuesday for the winter season in the Tomamu ski resort area in Hokkaido."We want people to enjoy the cold through the experience," Iwao Watanabe, general manager of Hoshino Resorts Tomamu, said on the annual winter attraction in central Hokkaido, as an outdoor thermometer showed about minus 10 C.The Ice Hotel is made by spraying water and snow onto balloons on cold nights and freezing them, creating structures about 8.5 meters in diameter and 3.5 meters high.The lodging is limited to one gr…READ FULL ARTICLE