First, let me say, to have the Onsen experience, you have to have o qualms about walking around everywhere in the nude. There are no clothes in the onsens, which ar2e separate for men and women, fortunately. You have the tiniest towel to take in and you fold it and put it on your head so as not to get wet. It's a faux pas to put it anywhere near the water.
There are 7 different onsens in Kinosake and the hotel gives you a pass to get you into all of them. One is two levels with Arabian baths, saunas, jacuzzi, and is Norma ally closed but it's a holiday so it's open for us. WE don't manage to go to them all as its a tiring experience in all this hot water.
Protocol is everything. YOu go in take off your shoes and put the in a locker, or leave your clogs (which have your hotel's name on them but I can't remember what that looks like...so I lock mine away withTed's sandals.
You part company, he to blue you to pink. There you put all your clothes, etc in a locker and get a key. You then sit on little plastic stools with a plastic basin, in front of a tap, spray and scrub yourself like crazy. You wash off your stool for the next person!
The hot oils are extremely hot so I just dipped in and out mostly. Other water features were good, sitting on a bench with hot water running over the top all over you, sitting with your feet in a warm bath, sitting on a rock outdoors at a lovely waterfall, sometimes looking at the view over town.
AFter a mastectomy and breast reconstruction, I wondered if I could do this. In fact, it was easy, nobody stared, a child looked quite seriously at my body at one point, but women of all shapes and sizes just carried on with their daily ablutions. It is obviously still a place ordinary people come, but there were also a lot of lovely bodies in there, obviously glitterati in for a trip. Of course, the high end hotels all have their own pools, some rooms even have their own private ones, and they have all their meals there too, so you would never see the at the public onsens I am sure.
Each hotel has their own pattern for yukata, overjacket and clogs. At night it is charming seeing and hearing everyone clopping along the cobbled streets going from one onsen to another, restaurants, etc. Everyone wears their yukata so it's OK to do that.
I read that one hotel has its own black Oondon taxi to take you from one to the other wearing only your yukata and clogs, an interesting feeling for sure...
This is a big seaside resort in summer, we are not far from a very sandy shoreline but we didn't have time to go there.
Back home I fall asleep in a chair at 9pm and am asleep at 10pm. WE sleep well o the floor that night.
There are 7 different onsens in Kinosake and the hotel gives you a pass to get you into all of them. One is two levels with Arabian baths, saunas, jacuzzi, and is Norma ally closed but it's a holiday so it's open for us. WE don't manage to go to them all as its a tiring experience in all this hot water.
Protocol is everything. YOu go in take off your shoes and put the in a locker, or leave your clogs (which have your hotel's name on them but I can't remember what that looks like...so I lock mine away withTed's sandals.
You part company, he to blue you to pink. There you put all your clothes, etc in a locker and get a key. You then sit on little plastic stools with a plastic basin, in front of a tap, spray and scrub yourself like crazy. You wash off your stool for the next person!
The hot oils are extremely hot so I just dipped in and out mostly. Other water features were good, sitting on a bench with hot water running over the top all over you, sitting with your feet in a warm bath, sitting on a rock outdoors at a lovely waterfall, sometimes looking at the view over town.
AFter a mastectomy and breast reconstruction, I wondered if I could do this. In fact, it was easy, nobody stared, a child looked quite seriously at my body at one point, but women of all shapes and sizes just carried on with their daily ablutions. It is obviously still a place ordinary people come, but there were also a lot of lovely bodies in there, obviously glitterati in for a trip. Of course, the high end hotels all have their own pools, some rooms even have their own private ones, and they have all their meals there too, so you would never see the at the public onsens I am sure.
Each hotel has their own pattern for yukata, overjacket and clogs. At night it is charming seeing and hearing everyone clopping along the cobbled streets going from one onsen to another, restaurants, etc. Everyone wears their yukata so it's OK to do that.
I read that one hotel has its own black Oondon taxi to take you from one to the other wearing only your yukata and clogs, an interesting feeling for sure...
This is a big seaside resort in summer, we are not far from a very sandy shoreline but we didn't have time to go there.
Back home I fall asleep in a chair at 9pm and am asleep at 10pm. WE sleep well o the floor that night.
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