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Meat Festival at Yunessun hot spring resort features creamy soy milk bath!
Here’s your chance to soak in a large refreshing hot bath of soy milk.
- Japan
- (food • Hakone • hot springs • Kanagawa • onsen • spa resort • travel • weird • Yunessun)
Japanese adult video actress offers overnight bus tour, hot spring photo shoot with fans
- Casey Baseel
Mar 23, 2019
A chance to travel with the star of Ultra Convulsions Erogenous Oil Boob Massage and Nude Divinity.
- Japan
- (beautiful women • hot springs • onsen • Shoko Takahashi • tours • travel • weird)
Beautiful onsen complex opens in downtown Osaka, lets you live onsen dream in heart of the city
- Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2019
Gigantic facility is a genuine onsen drawing water from a spring deep below the building.
Chocolate hot spring bath opens in Japan, allows swimsuits, mixed-gender bathing
- Casey Baseel
Feb 5, 2019
An onsen like no other in the Tokyo area’s premier hot spring resort town.
- Japan
- (chocolate • Hakone • hot springs • onsen • Valentine's Day • Yunessun)
Capybaras celebrate winter in luxurious mikan bath【Photos】
- Shannon McNaught
Jan 31, 2019
Hot springs aren’t only for humans.
- Japan
- (animals • bath • capybaras • cute • hot springs • mikan • Nagano Prefecture • onsen • winter • zoos)
Prior owners of Keiunkan ryokan, the world’s oldest hotel, liquidate company
- Casey Baseel
Jan 19, 2019
Hot spring inn, founded in 704, has fallen on hard times.
- Japan
- (COK • Guinness World Record • history • hot springs • hotels • Japanese inns • onsen • ryokan • travel • Yamanashi)
Japanese bikini model bursts fan’s nude hot spring video fantasy bubble
- Casey Baseel
Jan 5, 2019
Reveals trick of the trade regarding no-towel onsen travel videos.
- Japan
- (beautiful women • hot springs • onsen • travel)
2018 Top 20 Day Trip Onsen Hot Spring and Spa Ranking in Japan
- Krista Rogers
Dec 11, 2018
No trip to Japan is complete without a dip in one of the country’s quintessential hot springs.
Oldest man in the world celebrates his birthday following recognition from Guinness World Records
- Oona McGee
Jul 29, 2018
Hokkaido resident Masazo Nonaka credits sweets and hot springs for his longevity.
- Japan
- (age • Guinness World Record • Hokkaido • hot springs • longevity • Masazo Nonaka • oldest man in the world • onsen)
This gorgeous hot spring is actually part of one of Japan’s most convenient airports【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 22, 2018
New Chitose Airport Onsen isn’t just convenient and gorgeous, it’s an amazingly cheap place to spend the night too!
- Japan
- (airports • cool • Hokkaido • hot springs • hotels • New Chitose Airport • onsen • Sapporo • SNOJ • travel)
Saying a prayer can open a passage between men’s and women’s baths at this Japanese hot spring
- Casey Baseel
Jul 18, 2018
Love can start in the tub at this romantic onsen that puts the power in ladies’ hands.
- Japan
- (Ahiru Neko • COK • cool • hot springs • hotels • inns • Nagano • onsen • relationships • romance • ryokan • SNOJ • travel • weird)
A private onsen bath with a karaoke machine is two of Japan’s best things with zero embarrassment
- Casey Baseel
Jul 12, 2018
Go beyond singing in the shower by singing in the hot spring.
- Japan
- (awesome • COK • cool • hot springs • hotels • karaoke • Nagano • onsen • ryokan • SNOJ • travel • weird)
Bizarre pyramid hot spring in Japan combines Egyptian aesthetics with onsen relaxation
- Katy Kelly
Jul 4, 2018
You’ve never experienced the power of the pyramid while soaking at the hot springs? Head to Tochigi to rectify that.
- Japan
- (hot springs • onsen • Tochigi Prefecture • weird)
Japanese sento bath will let you bathe with 10,000 Sanrio Gudetamas【Video】
- Casey Baseel
May 29, 2018
Sanrio’s weirdly adorable lazy egg wants to have a soak with you and his 9,999 doppelgangers.
- Japan
- (baths • crazy • cute • Gudetama • hot springs • onsen • public baths • Sanrio • sento • weird)
Japanese hotel has rooftop hot spring bath, unlimited sushi and alcohol, costs less than 80 bucks
- Casey Baseel
May 9, 2018
Oh, and there’s also all-you-can-eat crab as part of the deal at this hotel in the coastal onsen resort of Atami.
- Japan
- (alcohol • all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • COK • hot springs • hotels • onsen • SNOJ • sushi • travel)
Japan’s “eternally 17-years-old” anime voice actress offers fans hot spring resort trip with her
- Casey Baseel
Apr 6, 2018
Latest Kikuko Inoue project is like an anime hot spring episode come true.
- Japan
- (anime • hot springs • Kikuko Inoue • Nagano • onsen • travel • voice actors • voice actresses)
Soak in a secret Japanese onsen hot spring…in a dilapidated old building
- Oona McGee
Mar 15, 2018
This is one of the most unusual onsen in all of Japan.
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- Japan
- (haikyo • hitou • hot springs • Nasu • onsen • secret Japan • secret onsen • Tochigi • tourism • travel)
How old is too old for a boy to go into the women’s hot spring bath in Japan?
- Casey Baseel
Mar 6, 2018
Child development expert weighs in on the tricky question, offers a solution from Japan’s samurai-era past.
- Japan
- (bathing • baths • culture • gender • hot springs • kids • onsen • Parenting • parents • society)
Japan’s most famous hot spring resort runs ad telling us to go to…a different hot spring resort
- Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2018
No reverse psychology here, just some straightforward, heartwarming compassion.
Onsen steamed bun-flavored Kit Kats on sale now at hot springs across Japan!
- Kay
Feb 20, 2018
The new Kit Kat flavor draws inspiration from a specialty snack traditionally found at Japanese hot springs.
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