Iojima Island: Birthday suit 2/2 (album)

May 3, 2008
Onsen time!

The water source is Nagasaki's Onsen Yasuragi Ioujima Spring.
Water has calcium, nitrate and chloride. Quantity is 720 liters per minute.
Temperature is 44 degrees Celsius (owowwww!)

Check out their site: http://www.ioujima.jp/ 
English version in pdf version. 

I had a very enjoyable time at the onsen. For one, it was the first time I went all out bare....but the experience is one thing I do not regret though I felt quite self-conscious at the start.

We jumped from one bath to another, indoor and outdoor baths..I liked the outdoor ones since I felt the water temperature was more bearable. From the pictures below, the only thing I did not try was the charcoal fall..but the barrel and even the hottest bath, I made it my goal to dip into.

You are given a big bath towel and a smaller one to bring with you inside. There was also a pack of some Dr. Genome thingie, of which I only used the skin oil packet after the bath. There are baskets and lockers inside, as well as hair dryers, face lotions, sterilized brushes for your use once you finish. I tell you, if I had known it would this good, I would have stayed the whole day until I was literally cooked.

The outdoor baths were nice, and it was probably obvious to the women inside who was the noisiest batch since we giggled, chattered, flapped our towels and moved around frequently. The Japanese children stared at the Filipino children since the latter was chattering excitedly in English (sikat!).

Afterwards we thought about going to another island, but since we still had to eat and finish the picnic food we had bought, I don't think we had enough time.

We went back afterwards to Nagasaki City and continued our adventures.

- May 27, '08 1:08 PM