Name: Japanese Onsen Bath Experience: Hot Spring Paradise (ONLY in JAPAN)
Uploaded: 2019-09-08T13:45:00.000Z
Duration: 18 min 6 s
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This really is a reason to visit Japan having this pool of cold air surrounding you and then

Submerging into this warm almost hot water between fall, winter and spring. There's no other feeling in the world like it

It's truly an only in Japan experience now

It's a reason to travel around Japan the entire country, but I'm in Fukushima this time to introduce some of their wonderful Onsen

We're gonna be hitting some of the best Onsen around

Fukushima is located in the Tohoku region a few hours north of Tokyo

It's Japan's third-largest Prefecture stretching from the sea to the mountains and the plains beyond in

This episode we'll cross the entire prefecture soaking in over a dozen baths

But let's start here at the Pacific Ocean in "Iwaki" city, a place I used to live in almost 20 years ago

Iwaki is a peaceful seaside town where you'll find "Yumoto Onsen" and

The "Sahako-no-Yu" public bathhouse. It has a very unique look with various shapes and angles

Anyone can stop in for a bath at a reasonable 230 yen,

about $2 the baths are separated by sex all with natural hot spring water

My favorite bath is made of wood and has a very high ceiling

For those who want a little more privacy. There is a private bath. You can reserve

The walls are all wood the baths smaller, but inviting

You'll learn fast locals like it really hot. It's not uncommon for temperatures to be as high as 50 degrees Celsius

The second is a little bit comfortablle, but

a spacious Ryokan on with the traditional flair to it

The indoor baths are nice especially in autumn when the leaves turn

This is a Konyoku-bath, meaning men and women can bathe near together enjoying the fresh air and lovely views of the surrounding nature

Two friends joined me on this trip "Miya", and "Shige" and our first stop was at Onsen shrine

The perfect place to pray for a good Onsen hopping trip

The trip from lwaki took us a couple hours northwest to Mt. Bandai area

This is "Hana-no-Yu", a massive Ryokan popular for groups

It had a unique mix of bath style starting with this the standing bath, it's 140 centimeters' high

Onsen at night is one of the benefits of staying at the Ryokan

You usually have access late into the night sometimes getting the whole bath to yourself

Each bath has a different temperature and surrounding this large barrel much brighter than the other areas

Don't worry these are limited to one bather at a time

The end is a long bath where you can find a corner and soak yourself into the rocks around you

Or wander over into this grotto looking space if there was a table you could have dinner here, but let's stay serious

It's a bath a really big one that can accommodate a society of bathers

This area around Mt. Bandai is famous for ski resorts and every skier wants to soak in a bath after hitting the slopes

"Yamagataya" Ryokan is a place with a really nice bath here

While me a dipper thing on the other side Shige and I went in for a long soak in the big bath

The natural light streaming in gives the bath a lot of character, it's easy to relax here listen to the running water

Or you can get up and go to the outside, but do it quickly because it's chilly out there

When you get tired of sitting in one bath for too long it's nice to move around getting another view

Charcoal is famous in this area and Yamagataya has a warm chillax room in the basement complete with crickets for a post bath nap

Not far away is the ultra friendly "Kawachi" inn

There's a beautifully illuminated outdoor bath, but it's the water here. That's the real attraction

It's the perfect weather for Onsen the air is cool

You can see all the steam rising from this super hot water which is great for the body

this is Kawachi Ryokan, "Yanaizu Onsen" and

This water is really special really a sacred the water flows from Enzoji temple, which has a history stretching past

It's one reason the bath looks like it was sent down from the heavens

This is "Dake Onsen" in Onsen town with several wonderful Ryokans for a relaxing stay a stream flows right through the center of it

"Hanakanzashi" is one of the most popular places to stay because it has spacious traditional rooms with a private Onsen baths

Real luxury Dake Onsens' natural hot spring water is a milky white from the minerals in it

In the shared bath open to all in a free-flowing sake barrel where bathers can help themselves

It's in the bath like this one that I feel the traditional touch of Japanese culture

Far from the city center in Tokyo it's a place where urban dwellers can escape for the complete and absolute relaxation

As the snow came down we pulled into "Tamago-Yu" at "Takayu Onsen"?

The old bathhouse has a lot of character to it the milky water giving it part of its name

Tamago means egg in Japanese and you might be wondering why they call this the egg bath

After sitting in this bath for some time your skin starts to take on the consistency the feeling the smoothness of an egg

we can get slippy feeling of a skin surface, can't we?

Yeah, we say smoothness in Japanese is "Tsuru-tsuru". Tamago-Yu is also famous for having that sulphuric egg smell

People have been coming here for a retreat since the 1870s. One of the many famous Onsen towns in Japan

We'll turn in to eggs ourselves so we decided to make a run for it to the other bath nearby

This bath faces the river between the mountains and the bath has that super hot water protect you from the sub-zero temperatures outside

You can see the minerals clearly here like ash after an eruption

The water source is treated as a holy place a tribute to the gods for bringing such beautiful water to us

You can see it bubbling up naturally from the ground

Here at the origin the minerals are quite deep

This is "Tsuchiyu Onsen".  A scenic Onsen town that is just perfect when the snow is falling

Hotel Sansuiso is located right next to the scenic emerald colored hot spring waterfall

And you get an amazing view of it from the back

Although the water is a little hotter than what I'm used to. The bath has one of the most relaxing

Views and atmospheres I've ever been in thanks to that rushing water at the Falls a hundred metres away

What makes the Fukushima Onsen experience so amazing it's this bath

It's sitting and soaking for 10 or 15 minutes and looking at the beautiful views that

Leaves the biggest impression on me because you kind of forget everything out in the outside world all the things that you

were stressed out about you forget for this time period where you're soaking in the bath, and