Here something that all girls in Japan need to know.
In a mixed-gender Onsen (yes, they exist), the men go naked but the women still keep their towels on. Of course, it's a Japanese hot spring and you don't have to wear a towel, but if you don't wear one, be prepared to be the only naked girl in a hot pool full of staring men.
Thanks, Reannon! I never would have known!
Read the whole terrible Onsen story here.
In a mixed-gender Onsen (yes, they exist), the men go naked but the women still keep their towels on. Of course, it's a Japanese hot spring and you don't have to wear a towel, but if you don't wear one, be prepared to be the only naked girl in a hot pool full of staring men.
Thanks, Reannon! I never would have known!
Read the whole terrible Onsen story here.
I like this story because it really could have been me. I'm so glad it wasn't me. (Sorry!)
"The Immigration office gives you a watered down version of one when you apply for a visa. It's this pamphlet of supposedly useful information that a newcomer to Japan might need to know. 'What to do in the event of an Earthquake', 'How to Separate your Trash', 'Who to Call if You're Feeling Suicidal'...that sort of thing. Not that any of that isn't important, but what I would have loved to have received would've been a detailed booklet on the 'do's and don't's' of Japanese culture. Stuff that those overpriced guidebooks at Maruzen don't cover. Like 'Where to Buy 100 Yen beers in Tokyo' or 'How to Buy a Cellphone When You Don't Have an Alien Registration Card' or 'How to Make a Tortilla Out of Japanese Supermarket Pancake Mix'. Important Stuff like that."
This quote is another thing that I totally agree with Reannon on. I guess that's why we have these blogs. We can all read each other's writing and learn from each other's mistakes.
4 comments:
hahah I'm glad people can learn from my crazy misadventures. And thanks (yet again!) for the shout-out. : )
DO you remember from where did you take the picture? It's sooooo nice, i wanna go there ^^
Do you remember from where did you take the picture? Soooooo nice, i wanna go there ^^
Actually among onsen aficionados its the norm to bathe in the onsen without a towel. For both the men and women. The towel should only be used for modesty when walking from the dressing room to the bath. The correct way to bathe is to never put the towel into the bath water, and always wash your body before entering. While in the bath you can either put your town on the rocks on top of your head.
Wearing a bath towel in the bath water is frowned upon by onsen purests and prohibited at many onsen, as its a bad manner to put anything but your body into the bath water.
The wearing of towels in the bath stemed from the influence of TV announcers wearing them at the onsen due to the modesty requirements of televions, but should not be interpreted as the required way to bathe.
Basically if you are comfortable bathing nude then there isn't any problem to do that.
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