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Tsurunoyu, Nyuto Onsen
Hot spring baths come in many varieties, indoors and outdoors, gender separated and mixed
Gender separated, I found the men’s area to be much more elegant than the women’s area.
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Japanese springtime
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Mt Fuji hot springs baths call
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small towel* only
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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,
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,
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keep the towel out of the water.
siggiofmaine 
Chèvrefeuille
Awesome … this is my kind of using Hot Baths … not a problem to me to go in naked … and that towel as big as a fig leaf that’s enough … why hide … Wonderful photo Sigrid and that haiku is so close to my feeling towards Spring.
The Laughing Housewife
The picture is beautiful. Not sure I’d be brave enough to go in naked, though…
Sigrid Gerstner Stevens Saradunn
Linda,
My husband paid a fee to use the men’s side after 10 pm and they said we’d likely
be by ourselves.
What they didn’t tell us was that the ceiling to floor windows were regular glass, not one way ! Leaving we realized it when we saw that one could see inside the hot springs rooms
The most alarming thing…and I decided not to use it as a punch line…the water in the tubs, showers, sinks and TOILETS was also the hot springs water.
Thanks for the comment…it took a drink or two to get me down into the hot springs bath.
in the mid sixties when I was mid twenties for an age !
Peace,
Siggi
The Laughing Housewife
😀 😀 😀
Sigrid Gerstner Stevens Saradunn
You can laugh….my husband did, .then if figured I didn’t hear any snickering in the lobby so it was ok.
Thanks for the giggles.
Peace
Siggi
Björn Rudberg (brudberg)
A small towel … almost like a fig leaf…
Sigrid Gerstner Stevens Saradunn
Bjorn…
Yes,, just about ! If you read the comment I wrote to Linda above, money crossing palms usually works !
Thanks for the comment.
Peace
Siggi
Sigrid Gerstner Stevens Saradunn
Bjorn…
One small towel…one fig leaf !
Siggi