- Hot Spring , Tokyo -

Hello Y'all. 😋

Today I would like to talk about Japanese hot springs. As you know, there are many hot springs in Japan.
Today my friend and I went to the hot spring which was first time to visit for us.  I was so HAPPY and felt so good for taking hot spring !😄💕✨
I love hot springs.😋✨

This hot spring is natural hot spring. They did dig 1700m, and get hot spring water from the deep underground.   

 I think many Japanese people love hot springs. Bathing habits might be (a little or big) different from other countries, but it's important for us. Bathing at home is also important, but especially many people enjoy hot springs which make us we can be  extremely relaxed, making good blood circulation, smooth skin, metabolism goes up and it is said very nice for our health. So many people love and enjoy hot spring. 

Today we went to this place. 

I don't know well about other country's hot spring system. 
If you don't know about Japanese hot spring system, some of you might be surprised to hear this...
But here it is ... " How to take Japanese hot spring. "

* Usually male and Female hot spring are separated room. (but some of hot springs are not separated.)
* For most of hot spring, taking bath is .... naked. But some of hot springs are allowed to wear swimsuits.  But most of hot springs, we take bath with naked. 
* This is just explaining about one of our culture. I know many countries and many people might not be comfortable to take bath together with other people with naked. But we have very long history and culture to take bath or hot spring in public bathing shop or hot spring with other people.  

How to take bath at hot spring. 
This is what I taught to my Mr. Wolf how to take a bath in Hot Spring in Japan. 

1. Bring a small towel with us. 

2. At first, take shower and clean our body. We care about good manner for taking bath, even though they have big filters and circulations. 

3. In the hot spring, there are many shower booths, and there are tiny chairs and water bowls in a booth or around there.   And we sit on the chair in front of the shower, and start to wash ourselves.  ( Need to be careful to take shower with standing up because you should not splash other people.  So most of people wash their body and take a shower with sitting  on the small chair. )

4.  Wash our hair, wash our body well with own small towel.  And then finally we can get into the hot spring tub. 

5. We can not put our towel into the hot tub for keeping clean hot tub water. We care about other people, and have good manners each other.    So wash towel well and squeeze it, and wrap your hair with your small towel, or ... fold the towel and put the towel on your head, or ...  you can put your towel on the side of bath tub. 😋✨

6. no swimming, no diving in a bath tub. 👌

7. We go in and out  bath tub, make our body warm and cool, repeat it some of sets. And make our body good blood circulation. (  But if you had some problem for your health, better to ask your doctor and make sure you can do it or not to take hot spring for a long time and making your body blood circulation. )  I took many kinds of bath tubs outdoor and indoor for about one hour. 

* This is the one of ways , (for example) to take bath as my way.   And I believe most of people do the same way.

Entrance ↓ -  We take off shoes for the house and certain places like this bath shop. 

Shoe storages↓

 ↓ Entrance 

↓ Gift Shop

↓  Again, Plastic Food sample for the restaurant.
We took break time and had lunch here.

↓ On the right side, it is a relax room, break time for taking hot spring. Many people take hot spring in and out sometimes. And some people take break time here for relaxing.  Some people take their nap. 

↓ There were some massage machine. 

↓  Hot spring for male

↓ Hot Spring for female

↓ Restaurant 

↓ Relax room for break time. You can lay down and relax, or even taking a nap, also. 😅😜💤

The pictures down below is from the official website.

↑ They have many kinds of bath tubs, different temperature, massage jet bath, daily special bath (today it was many many grape fruits were floating in a bath tub. It smelled good and made our skin smooth and soft.) 


↓ Down below from here, these are outdoor hot spring.
There are some outdoor bath tubs with Japanese traditional landscape.  It was sprinkle raining and cool day, so I felt so good in a outdoor bath tub.  
Of course I did good stretching also.😉😋 

↓ Warm Stone bed Bath /  You will lay down and relax, it's warm stone floor

↓ Personal size stone tub, and yesterday it was hot spring with Rice bran, it makes our skin very soft and smooth.  And it was not too hot, nice and warm enough.  This is outside hot spring bath. 

↓ From down below, these are inside bath tub. 
They are different temperature. 

↓ Laying down tub.  There is a very COLD pipe pillow. 
When I laid down in this tub, the cold big pipe pillow feels so good for my neck in a shallow warm tub. 😳😳😳💦😅

↓ Massage tub. 

↓ Cold water tub

We enjoyed it very much ! 😀💕✨

We took hot spring, and had break time for lunch, took a little nap, and had hot spring again and finished it. 

It was so nice and feels so good.  

When I was young, I went to ski with friends, and after skiing, we took hot spring and very enjoyed it. 

Bathing and hot springs help to recover from fatigue,too. 

This hot spring place has many other services also. 

Dry Sauna, Wet Sauna, Massage, Body & Foot massage, 

Thai Massage, Head massage, Korean style body scrub, 

Oil Lymph Massage, Beauty Salon ...etc. 

Just this is not the hotel, only daily use Hot Spring. 

But there are many kinds of Hot Spring hotels in Japan. 

Too many good places for Hot Springs. 

You can research online and hope you find good one for you !  

Thank you for stopping by ! 😀✨