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Have you ever been to onsen? / No
You have to try it.
They take all of their clothes off. / Wow.
I've never remembered anything.
I didn't pay attention 'cause I'm afraid to look.. just
I look at Japaneses, not Thais.
What was your first time? Hale or what?
Proud to be Thai.
Why are you saying this?
This is bad. / Well in case they try it.
Thais are the most dangerous. / Really?
'Cause we take a peek at others.
For Japanese, they said it's very impolite.
Like you're there, see others naked, go out and gossip about it.
Yeah? / Yeah.
Nobody cares 'cause it's normal.
'Look at that one, I think there's something wrong with her.'
We're here at Beppu.
It's famous for onsen.
Bathing in hot springs.
But we're not going to an ordinary onsen
we're searching for a hot sand bath.
For good health, right?
Costing money but it's the cheapest we could find.
How much?
300 yen (120 Baht)
Sounds pretty weird right? Putting sand on you and paying for it?
120 Baht.
But it's hot sand from the beach.
It's pretty unusual.
Sand from the beach is hot in our home.
There's geothermal energy.
So it's basically good for health.
Do we have to get naked? / I don't know.
You don't have any information?
From the recommendations they said
there'll be someone putting sand on us
not like we dig in and lay down like in *** San.
So we pay that person.
If we're naked, they can see our bodies. / Yeah.
Maybe not completely naked.
If it's a woman, what do we do?
It's gotta be a suit.
Being completely naked is not fine. We're not used to it.
It's in the sand.
Bathing in Japan..
they're undressed in onsen.
It's not about sex or anything. It's their culture.
Since you're here, you should experience it.
Have you ever been... / It's normal for me because
I play golf
with Japanese, not Thai, right?
So if they do it and I don't, it's like what's this? Something like that.
Were you shy at first? / Yeah.
It's not our culture, right?
We don't have this, not men or women.
In Japanese society, they start to do it from their home
since they're kids, they take a bath with their parents.
Sometimes it's natural mineral water. / It's good for heath.
Where's the sand? This is rock.
What hot sand.
This is it? Go take a look.
Yes, it is! / Here, here.
Yes, it is.
If we go in this way, it's free.
They're all big women.
So we don't have to get naked?
No nudity. They have suits for you.
It's not hot.
Is it hot sand? Normal sand, I mean. / A little bit.
Not so much.
Little hot like sand in our home?
Like the common beach? / Yeah.
Or they have a heater underneath that sand.
It's a heater.
For what?
We can put this sand on ourselves next to them.
Taking turns.
Only 150 yen (60 Baht) for our service.
Attract customers, start a new service.
The entrance fee may be only 300 yen (120 Baht)
but it's 10,1000 yen for a suit.
Yeah, do we have to pay for that too?
Yeah. 300 is too cheap.
Looks thrilling. They're rubbing sand on them.
There're umbrellas for them too. / Really?
Look at that. Protect them for sunlight.
Sand bath fee...
What? It's 1,000 yen (400 Baht) per person.
See? Per person.
They just changed the fee, it's paper here.
It said 300 yen (120 Baht) in the website.
They've just changed it!
Expensive!
What do we do?
Do it. Since we're here..
1,000 yen
times 2.. it's 2,000.
It's 800 Baht!
Are we gonna do it? We should; we've come this far.
Don't wanna spend money. / Yeah.
It's 400 Baht, oh my!
You can do lots of things with 400 Baht.
Some woman spend it all on her hair.
Since we're here, let's do it.
Hi.
Two, please.
You can read English?
English, yes.
'The sand bath is busy now, please wait here for ... minutes'
Oh. Got it. Okay.
What about the suits?
Oh.
You said 'oh', what did she say?
She said go this way and into the water! / Ha ha ha.
These people are waiting for sand bathing, right?
There's a lot of them.
Lots of waiting people.
We'd bathe on sundown, maybe.
They have a photo service.
The staffs are gossiping.
You see that guy who just came in?
He's so fit. I'm digging and I almost miss it.
He's so sturdy.
My heart is trembling. This hoe I'm using almost cut his head off.
They maybe like..
You see those two customers wearing black clothes, sitting there?
They're mine. Mine!
I'm gonna bury them.
I'm gonna use this hoe to decapitate them.
You see that one?
Bathing til his face pale or what?
Which one?
The one on the nearest side. You see?
Is he dead?
No. The umbrella is green.
He seems dead.
It's surely safe? Look at that, why is he so freaking pale.
Like a dead body compared to the next guy, you see that?
The umbrella is green!
The next guy's face is red like he's gonna die.
Oh, I get it.
There're two tubs.
They use one at a time.
They fill the other tub with hot natural mineral water.
The sand is hot 'cause of the water. / Oh.
Don't know if it's from the mineral water source or the heater...
and after a while, they release the water out so the sand is still hot.
And then people can go in there.
Do we have to wear our boxers?
We may have to take it all off 'cause it's gonna be wet.
Our underpants would be wet.
What if they're putting sand on us and the wind blew our suits.. oops!
What are we gonna do? What if they...
missed.
Torn off.
It's not worth it. 1,000 yen. (400 Baht)
And we're the ones who pay.
There, they're preparing to use the other tub.
Time's up.
They're like getting up from graves. Resurrecting.
Are they wearing any underpants?
How do we know?
Oh my God, doesn't he feel anything?
Do you have the answer?
Do you know if they wear them. The answer is no, they don't.
The sand is poisonous. It makes you forget yourself.
It's ready.
Okay, they're calling us, right?
Sand bathing. Sand bathing.
Go and change in there.
Naked?
Take all of your clothes off and put the yukata on only. / Oh.
Only yukata.
Wear only yukata. / Okay.