Below is the description way of taking a bath in a hot spring (public bath).
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Take off all your clothes in the changing room and place them into a basket together with your bath towel. At Yunosato there are coin lockers for valuables available.
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Japanese hot springs are enjoyed naked. Swimming suits are not allowed. However, it is the custom to bring a small towel into the bathing area, with which you can enhance your privacy while outside of the water. Once you enter the bath, keep the towel out of the water.
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Before entering the bath, take a shower.
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Enter the bath and soak for a while. The temperature of the bath is almost 40-43 degrees . If it feels too hot, try to enter very slowly and move as little as possible.
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After soaking for a while, get out of the bath and wash your body with soap at a water tap, while sitting on a stool. Soap and shampoo are provided.
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Re-enter the bath and soak some more.
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After you finished soaking, do not rinse your body with tap water, for the minerals to have full effect on your body.
3 comments:
Hi, what is it like in mid December being winter? Is it really cold once you step out of an open air hot spring?
Hi. The temperature in December is from 0 degree to 10 degree.
I think not so cold this area(Hakone Yuomto). but you need coat.
and a lot of people like to take the hot spring in winter.
thank you.
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