Name: What Japan Taught Me About Bathing
Uploaded: 2013-12-09T20:55:20.000Z
Duration: 7 min 19 s
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I haven't made one of these videos in like nine months.

Hello people on YouTube its Caffinejedi and it's been a long time since I've made this kind of video but what the hell, let's

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get to it. So, when I shower it's very basic, I mean, I adjust the water for like five minutes.

Oh fuck, it's too hot again. Then I body wash everything. Just 'cause she dances go-go,

it don't make her a ho, no. Then I shampoo my hair. We gonna eeeelope to Meeeexico. Then

I condition. Called up my mama, said I'm in love with a stripper, yo. Then I condition

again. Bones in your body and you was made to be a celebrity. And then I use shower-cream.

He without sin cast the first stone. So, as one might imagine when I lived in Japan I

did a lot of showering. As should everyone everywhere. But, there is a lot more to it

than that in Japan. Japanese bathing is the art of relaxation. Seriously guys, it is.

Okay, so, let's just generalize it here: The Japanese are very high-strung people. They

have a lot of stress and they work all the time. "work" Yes I use air-quotes with that

because there seems to be a lot more quantity than quality. And this is not made up by me

and my evil western judgement. Japanese people will admit the same thing. Since they can't

leave home till OJ Bath goes freaking home the time they do get off to relax is all that

more important. It is practically sacred. Than how do Japanese people like to relax?

Bathing! The wonderful, wonderful bathing! Now, before I went there showering was like

fine, yeah, whatever, you do it. I never was a kid who didn't enjoy taking a shower. Unlike

some of you. Hm, you know who you are. But in Japan, people, they take it very seriously.

And I mean seriously, they have been taking this thing seriously for a really, really,

really long time. Like long before all these westerners were bathing every day, Japanese

people had this thing down packed. In fact, the first thing they noticed when a lot of

foreign missionaries came was the fact that they didn't bath every day. And they stunk.

So, how much do they enjoy bathing? I guess for the rest of this video let's just talk

about the onsens since... my personal favorite, but I will touch up on the sento, the public

bath. The public bath, the sento. It essentially used to be the only way people used to bath

back in the day. To the point, that when I was in Tokyo, apartment hunting, there was

actual apartments that didn't have their own showers. The real estate agent would point

me to the nearest sento and say "well, if you need to shower, there it is". But unlike

I guess the "porn" aspect of bathhouses, bathhouses in Japan are very clean, very efficient and

very relaxing so I much enjoyed them. Oh, and BYOS. That is: bring your own soup. Trust

me on that one. But these places become very handy, especially if you decide to take the

overnight bus from Osaka to Tokyo which takes you eight hours. Or vice versa. Tokyo to Osaka.

Anyway the point is: sentos, they get your ass clean. So, I am just going to stick to

the onsen which is Japanese for the best bath you will ever have in your life. Or hot spring.

Not actually a literal hole in the dirt or water pops up from, they have like basically

every shape and size and type of onsen imaginable. So to be considered an onsen the basic rule

is the water has to be sourced from I guess underground. And from this there is like different

qualities and quantities and all these types, they come from just like this tiny little

family owned ones to like huge theme parks of onsens. But at the very basic, an onsen

will usually have an outdoor bath and an indoor bath. And there is something truly magical

about taking a bath outside. I don't know what it is but it's like you've never lived

before until you had little tiny snowflakes falling on top of you as you sit in a giant

pool with steaming bubbling hot water from the ground. But depending how big the place

is you know you can get like food. Oh, and there is this stupid orange hair again! A

ton of booze... which, uh... is perfectly acceptable but there is a warning to this

which is: when you are in an onsen and it is super giant boiling hot, you are sweating

like a maniac and do not realize it. So make sure to hydrate yourself when you're getting

completely smashed of your bottom. Oh god, I'm starting to sound English. I said the

word "bottom". You can also dress in ukata which I always found delightfully fun... and

comfortable... and easy to fall asleep in... and also it hides the fat really well. Just

something I noticed. And for some extra yen there are lots of different spa treatments

available. I personally love getting massages. And Japanese people, they know how to do a

massage right. Painful as hell which is how I like them and none of this pussy crap I

always get in England which is just like "piep"..."piep" I'm not a goddamn typewriter okay? Put some

force into it! Strangely enough though this is like one of the only things that Japanese

people tend to do with cloth on is get a massage. So, hmmm. Word of advice though going to the

onsen might not be the best date idea for the reason: sexes are segregated so you'll

spend a lot of your time like you know possibly talking trough the wall which I know people

have done before. Now, I have heard of the rumored same sex onsen. I know they exist.

I personally never went to one but if there's anything a same sex German sauna taught me

is that there are some things that are meant to be hidden by clothing. Especially the opposite

sex. Urgh. Japanese people won't prevent them from pointing out your "western abnormalities".

I can't tell you how many times I got the question "Nan Cup Ne?" Yes and there was actual

like "let me try and feel you up a little bit" "are those real?" I never thought of

myself as a crazy boobalicious person I mean, I never think I don't have anything, but god

damn, caveat to that Japanese bras suck so come prepared. So I guess I can conclude by

telling you that bathing is probably one of the best experiences you could have in Japan

and everyone should defiantly try the onsen. But it also makes basically any kind of spa

anywhere else look like complete and total horrible crap. And you will have to live with

that the rest of your life. So, make sure to like, subscribe, favorite, favorite me

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