onsen freak

[kokiri]

Hi, I'm going to Japan this summer I love onsens so could you recommend any that have a rotenburo and are not over 10 000 yen ? (I AM asking a lot ).
I'll go to kansai region but maybe also north to Aomori

Also if some girls / guys want to meet this summer in Japan and soak in hot water (no mixed bath though) you're welcome. I know some nice sentos in kyoto.

cheers
:relief: atsuiiiii

[Harvey]

Kinosaki in Kansai is a famous onsen-gai.

[Elizabeth]

I'm looking for one around the same price range in Tokyo as well....just not one with a lot of sulfur or other dangerous minerals.......Well, even in trace amounts, doesn't it have the potential of being harmful to the body :?

箱根などでは硫黄は健康に害になる恐れがあるという注 意書きがあります。
少しでも体にあまりよくないと思ったんです。

[Mal]

I'm looking for one around the same price range in Tokyo as well....just not one with a lot of sulfur or other dangerous minerals.......Well, even in trace amounts, doesn't it have the potential of being harmful to the body



The human body is quite remarkable in the way that we have an excellent protection from exposure to most naturally occuring phenomina. Our skin is our first line of defense against all sorts of toxins and while it may seem frail to us when we compare it say the hide of an elephant or other animal, it actually does quite a remarkable job at keeping us safe.

The way this system is generally surmised to work is that while yes, trace elements minerals can be absorbed by the body, usually they are only absorbed by the skin, coming to rest in the extracellular fluid compartment. This means that you could quite literally sweat and drool out any minerals your body absorbs :o

However it should be noted that this process also stops these minerals from actually ever entering your blood stream (which is the important thing!)

In any case, naturally occuring sulphur has for all intents and purposes no affect on your body chemistry (and isn't even all that dangerous when ingested orally, atleast the levels you would be exposed to). The only other minerals that one would have to worry about would be lead - which would be absorbed into the sweat and saliva as I stated before, and mercury - which is unlikely to be found in an onsen, you're more likely to ingest much more mercury from eating a fish actually.

In all these cases it would take prolonged exposure in order to even begin to have to worry about harboring more potentially toxic elements than your body can safely handle.

So, find someone nice to wash your back and enjoy your onsen, you have nothing to worry about :-)

[kokiri]

hi Harvey, thank you for the link, I tried to go to kinosaki last year but I couldn't book by phone bec the lady I was talking to was using keigo all the time, so it was too hard..... and too expensive for me. In fact I had not realized that you have to go before the start of the summer holidays bec prices do rise a lot.
I'll try again this year

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

Konnichiwa kokiri-san :wave:
A recommended hot spring of Aomori
YACHI-ONSEN
http://www.hitou.net/data/21aomori/yachi01.html
Lodging costs
7000 yen or more
A room without meals
3800 yen
A site of a meeting of a Japanese unexplored hot spring
http://www.hitou.net/

Hokkaido is most suitable for a hot spring going in summer.

From a Japanese onsen freak :bluush:

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

Onsen where Onsen freak wants to go to
in Aomori.
http://spa.s5.xrea.com/broom/aomori/furoufushif.htm
SUKA-YU
http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~sukayu/
FUROUFUSI-ONSEN(Agelessness and deathlessness)
http://www.furofushi.com/
AONI-ONSEN
http://www.yo.rim.or.jp/~aoni/

[kokiri]

ya da, nihongo bakkari desu !! ;)
thanks hiroyuki I'll ask my teacher to help me. I bought a great magazine about onsens in japan now the hard part, reading it !!!
I don't think I'll go to Hokkaido next summer I was more thinking of going back to an onsen I like next to Sendai ,maybe watching neputa matsuri (nebuta?) in Aomori.

I'll investigate

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

A festival of Aomori is "NEBUTA festival". :cool:
http://www.nebuta.or.jp/
2005/8/1-8/7
A Japanese festival site
http://www.todays.jp/maturi/
http://www.rurubu.com/event/index.asp
It is a link of a translation site of Web.
http://www.aamt.info/japanese/mtweb-j.htm

[Elizabeth]

Onsen where Onsen freak wants to go to
in Aomori.
http://spa.s5.xrea.com/broom/aomori/furoufushif.htm
SUKA-YU
http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~sukayu/
FUROUFUSI-ONSEN(Agelessness and deathlessness)
http://www.furofushi.com/
AONI-ONSEN
http://www.yo.rim.or.jp/~aoni/
Konnichi wa Nagashima-san !

Tokyo ni mo aru tegorona onsen ga aru no kana? :p
Oshiete kudasai. :bow:

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

Konnichi wa Nagashima-san !

Tokyo ni aru tegorona onsen mo aru no kana? :p
Oshiete kudasai. :bow:

Roukai simasita. :wave:
saisinno oedono Onsenwa koko! :okashii:
okedoonsen-monogatari
http://www.ooedoonsen.jp/

Azabu-juban-onsen
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ue3t-cb/spa/azabujuban/azabujuban.htm
Other
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SilkRoad/2118/onsen1010.html

hontouwa kantou no onsen nara IKAHO-ONSEN　wo susumeru nodesuga
ato jimotono hito gahairu chisana onsen wo shiteimasuga

ああっ・・桜、舞い散る景色を見ながら露天風呂に入り たい・・・ :-)
http://www.higaerionsen.net/tokusyuu/sakura.htm

[bubupa]

Hi, does anyone thinks Expo 2005 Aichi is worth going?

[kokiri]

do you think there's an onsen inside ????

[budd]

"Hi, does anyone thinks Expo 2005 Aichi is worth going?"
yes
"do you think there's an onsen inside ????"
http://www.expo2005.or.jp/

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

The hot spring which is near to EXPO is Gero hot spring.
http://www.kankou-gifu.or.jp/en/01/02.html


A site of ONSEN :cool:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ue3t-cb/index_e/index_e.htm
MAP :blush:
http://spa.s5.xrea.com/babyroom.htm

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

The hot spring which is made of flower viewing
http://www.rurubu.com/entame/02spring/magazine/sakura/04.html
http://www.rurubu.com/entame/02spring/magazine/sakura/03.html
http://spa.s5.xrea.com/broom/kibetsu.htm


http://www.rurubu.com/entame/02spring/index.asp
http://www.rurubu.com/entame/05spring/