{"id":5735,"date":"2013-07-11T02:43:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T02:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2017-07-25T07:23:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T07:23:44","slug":"how-to-survive-your-first-japanese-onsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/how-to-survive-your-first-japanese-onsen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Survive Your First Japanese Onsen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have so many Japan posts to write up when we get home (and which I will undoubtedly bore you to death with soon enough!), but in the meantime, here’s a post on how to Survive your First Japanese Onsen. I wrote it on the Shinkansen from Kyoto to Tokyo yesterday, it was a three-hour journey and the train had lulled everyone else to sleep!… <\/i><\/p>\n

Make no bones about it, you have to be naked to experience a real Japanese Onsen (perhaps the most famous spa experience of them all, practised for thousands of years in Japan). You might have seen from previous posts<\/a>, that I am 100% English when it comes to nakedness en mass, but I also can’t bear the thought of missing out on something that’s a huge part of life in Japan while we are here.\u00a0\u00a0 So, during our stay in Izu (more on that later!), I decided to take the plunge(!!) There are lots of rules and regulations as soon as you step through that Onsen door, so I thought I would talk you through a few pointers on what to do and (and what definitely not to do) on your first authentic (and what should be uber relaxing) Onsen experience.<\/p>\n