No pictures in the bath (duh!)
So, obviously, I couldn’t take any pictures once we were in the bath. But omg this place was so much busier than the other onsen they took me to in January! Granted, it was much later at night, and there was like, five feet of snow on the ground. But still, we’re going from maybe 10 other women in the bath to about 50 women and children.
Tomo-san and I went to the outdoor bath first, which was fine with me! In January, I kept overheating in the indoor baths--even in the lower temperature ones (all of the baths are separated at different temperatures)--and ended up spending the majority of my time in the outdoor bath. That was so nice! Whenever I started to overheat, I’d drape the upper half of my body over one of the rocks lining the bath and stick my hands in the snow. Then, just when I started to get cold, I’d get back in. The outdoor bath here, though, more decorative rocks lining the bath. I didn’t get a good look at them, but they were mostly this pretty dark green.
After the bath, we went to one of the saunas. She picked the salt sauna, where you literally rub salt all over your body and then sit there. They’ve got a TV in there, too! I didn’t last very long--maybe 10 minutes? It was so hot in there that I could literally feel the sweat dripping everywhere. There was a little shower right outside where we could rinse the remaining salt off when we were done.
Lastly, we tried out one of the cooler (both in the adjective and literal sense) baths. It was a hibiscus bath (the water was magenta colored!) and had jets in it like a hot tub. The water was pretty cool, though, although it might have just felt colder because we’d just gotten out of the sauna. Either way, it was cool.