August 25, 2007: Japanese ramen bath

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I think I prefer the flesh-eating fish spa to this one in Japan, where the bath is intended to recreate a ramen noodle meal. The water is flavored with pepper, and colored a light brown to resemble pork broth. The noodles are some sort of salt additive when they eventually get dunked.

It turns out to be at a weird bathing theme park called Hakone Kowakien Yunessun, where they also offer tea baths:



and coffee:



and red wine:



Only one more weird asian bathing spa IotD to complete the weird asian bathing spa trifecta.