The COOLEST Place In JAPAN! Kusatsu Onsen
good morning everyone once again from Japan today we're in this amazing Japanese onson town called kusatsu which is very snowy right now kind of a perfect setting so if you're not familiar and onson town is basically just like a hot spring town so Japan has many of these places where there's like natural Hot Springs also kind of like Resorts where you can bathe in the hot spring water and that's what we're going to be doing in this video so we're here in April and we didn't know if it was going to be snowing I think that's going to make it a lot nicer though the mixture of being in the hot springs and having the snowy scenery and we're staying in this house here I'll give you the house tour as usual take my shoes off as you're expected to do they always provide these little slippers in Japan so it's a new house but it's kind of like a traditional style as you can see you got like the sliding Japanese doors that I've seen many times pretty much just one big room so my parents will sleep in there we're in here they do have these kind of shutters though that comes down kind of separates it do you know how much this place was $200 per night per night so so 100 for us 100 for them it's really nice though yeah it's full of like Hightech things yeah another interesting thing that they had was this little machine here so you put these things here under the sheets and turn it on and it heats up the bed underneath and then this way is the kitchen got a really nice big kitchen we just had breakfast and through here the toilet the toilet separate from the bathroom we got the washing machine and this is the shower and bath so we're going to walk to the main center of the town now which is pretty close only it takes about 10 minutes to walk there so so quiet on these back streets we're staying in more of a residential area there are hotels and stuff closer to the center and the weirdest thing ever not weird but just unexpected was that we were walking here last night and there was a lady that started to speak Portuguese to us and she was uh Japanese Brazilian so it was just like very unusual especially in a place like this but uh there are many Japanese that went to Brazil so we have a big Brazilian Japanese population There community yeah yeah but it seemed like she lives there now so I guess grew up in Brazil and then moved here [Music] that the icicles yeah it looks like the Christmas tree yeah pretty cool so these buildings here are the Hot Spring Resorts so in these ones I think you'll have your own like private little hot spring room the place that we're staying the bath the water is not coming from the hot spring it's just normal water got the anime not sure which one that is they look pretty fancy the resorts are expensive probably yeah yeah the accommodations here were a lot more expensive than in Nik the place that we stayed before and you get these buildings here that are the public Hot Springs so you can go in there for free so here at the hot springs you're supposed to get completely naked so you can't film or take pictures but we're also thinking of renting one a private one so then we should be able to film and this is the Town Center so this right here is like the Highlight it's called Yuba Taki never seen anything like it before oh look at the Water Co too we only saw this place at night last night so this is a hot water field all this is coming from a volcanic area nearby that's supplying it with this hot spring water so so steamy right now looks like a water slide you're going to see it's even bigger this is just a small part of it yeah definitely never seen anything like that no it's very unique and smells really bad the sofa yeah like you when you eat too many eggs that's the that's the smell the rust and egg smell yeah but pretty awesome that you have this in the center of the town I actually saw this place for the first time in Gabriel traveler's video he came here I think a few years ago and when I saw this I I thought definitely putting it on my list in Japan and now we're here so that's nice they have this uh one your hands it's hot I need it cuz I haven't been wearing gloves Carol's been wearing gloves oh it is hot yeah you can't keep your hand in there no bit too hot yeah it's also nice that they have these parts here where you can heat your feet there's a few of them around the town so it's also nice cuz they have this like walking deck all the way around so you can just walk around the place and you're going to see how cool it is at night it's a other different vibe I mean right now it's around 1° cus really cold so yeah the steam's obviously super visible in this kind of temperature but at night it's lding up so yeah it just looked different you'll see in the video [Music] [Music] so you got yet again another foot heating Place soak your feet do that later on so now we're at the top it's like this here so you're probably wondering what this is it's actually a water cooling like a facility I guess I don't know if that's what you call it a facility cuz when the water comes up it's 55° C way too warm so it passes through this cools down and then the water gets supplied to all like the onome resorts and the businesses that need to use the water pretty intense color yeah the sofa color so I also read that there's around 4,000 to 5,000 L of hot spring water coming out of here per minute supposed to be one of the most out of all the onson in Japan [Music] [Music] so we're going to walk up to this Temple now can see everyone walking up there I could see the Pagoda up there before pretty cool looking Pagoda looks like it could be slippery yeah be careful ice stairs so there are also ski resorts in this area and yeah it is the season right now we saw the slopes when we were driving here cool statue when was the last time you were in a snowy place oh last year in Argentina in Chile Bar lodge oh okay it was like this yeah it was actually like this it was uh nobody lost we only had a few bits left but you travel to Chile on the road was like this okay nice yeah we haven't seen this in ages I don't remember the last time so I mentioned in the last video in Nico that I wanted to see a Japanese Temple in the snow and now we have it yeah this looks awesome I don't even know if I've ever been to a a temple in the snow before beautiful [Music] [Applause] [Music] the gaama shrine W it's from 1703 didn't realize it would be that old Monument to the poet bash located along a narrow road is a monument with a poem written by the Haiku Master B praising the healing properties of katu's waters I don't know if this is the the monument here already all these little buddha looking statues how cool there's even more there man that is one impressive Cota though the colors the vibrant oranges mixed with the white is this a graveyard yeah if you went around the other side of this building you get a really good shot of the of the Town yeah yeah we can go later on this pigot looks brand new yeah I think it is [Music] so one thing that I've noticed in Japan is that that if there is a popular place to eat people will queue up for a long time they're patient I think that's a pudding place I did read that there is a famous pudding place around here that's probably it and now we're just making our way to uh Park which is one of the other attractions to see I think it's only like a 10 minute walk not far at all so I forgot to mention how we arrived here you can get a train the bullet train from Tokyo to another city nearby and then from there there is a bus but we missed the last bus the last bus is at 3:40 I think p.m. I check that out tooro I think that is I've seen that anime before yeah so we missed that bus and we had to get a taxi the taxi was like $135 but it is an hour away some interesting Foods Japan always has a bunch of things that I've never seen before those are like potatoes you can get the fluffy do not sure how you pronounce it I remember this character too we've seen a few animes yeah yeah we've seen a lot of the studio gibi animes and we love them yeah I think this is the lady from Spirited Away the famous one now we watched this one how's moving castle Yeah Yeah with the fire [Music] mhm ah so I saw a video of this place where they buy all the eggs in the hot spring water cool idea in the little baskets so it's pretty cool as you're walking around cuz you can still see the steaming boiling hot water really flowing here so I think that this is the entrance to the park already Soo so we're going to try out the the foot warming B this one looks even cooler than the ones in the main Town Main Center real hot yeah I don't know what temperature that is what do you think car 35 or something may more more yes you can see the water is just coming down here everything's steamy it's a good idea that they did this [Music] [Music] yeah so we got those little foot towels from the place that we're staying I think they also have like bath robes there for the onson that we can take when we go got the steamy waterfall little waterfall so it's somewhere around here where they have one of the main big public Hot Springs which I think we're going to come to tonight certainly a different kind of Park oh yeah it's really cool the contrast of the snow and then Steam and hot water it's really amazing yeah that's basically why we loved Iceland when we went to Iceland in the winter because of the same kind of contrast so there's actually like multiple areas where I think you can put your feet in look at the animal over there is that a real any is it real yeah I thought he was a I thought he was like a stuffed anal but moving looking over what is that though I wish I had my camera here [Music] I don't think this one's so nice and warm no definitely not this may be the first time that I see like a frozen lake really yeah I don't think I've seen it before yeah I don't think we saw that in Iceland I think the water was always like well flowing not frozen it's beautiful around here big Forest Area so there are walking trails in the park as well where you can walk through the forest seems like they clear up the snow pretty good so you can go for winter walks [Music] so we just came into this store they gave us this kind of sweet hair has like a red bean paste inside interesting he also gave us some green tea you going to buy one yeah this one is really good I think it's matcha yeah probably but the texture is very different like soft yeah spongy so you got all different kinds here so we might get a box like this 1,400 the tea is also matcha tea too I always really like matcha tea so I think today instead of going to an actual restaurant we're just going to buy things that we can eat straight away take out so this is a dumpling Place probably get some pork dumplings so we just got one dumpling each it's 350 only got one cuz we're going to try out some other things you like it some other things in there it's not just pork is it no it's pork and veget vegetables onions or something like that yeah I can taste onions it's nice yeah it's nice nice little snack hello uh one fish 900 900 I pay here pay you all okay never had a fish like this before smells great though how much was it 900 okay I love fish so yeah really good what is all that looks like eggs I don't know it's nice and crispy though salty salty fish taste I think I like the dumplings more yeah so we're going to head to this little restaurant now just get the takeouts need Google translate though I might just get the skewers so it seems that in here we have to order from this menu Google Translate to the rescue and the translation is good um yeah I think so enough yeah yeah enough I got this one but I don't know if I put the money before I think I saw people put money in first thousand yeah please wait outside the store okay thank you okay thank you it it will beat make a sound okay thank you so we got a bunch of different things each one is 300 so they're all the same price so I think we're going to get our drinks from the vending machine we've never done that before probably got a milk tea 140 you going to get that green tea yeah this one same price so that's funny this is hot it's hot tea it's actually really hot it's hard to hold yours is more like warm yeah yeah Mine mine's really hot look I guess they must be heated the entire time is that us beeping yeah okay thank you very much okay thank you so I got two orders of the chicken skewers and also this pork thing that I never really had before I got the cheese balls what is that it's something called Machi it's a Japanese thing and it's made from rice m Mo yeah steaming too very strong black pepper taste real nice though how's your cheese really good very creamy taste the black pepper it has loads it's tasty very nice the mai it looks like cheese but I thought it was cheese I don't think so like a very gooey rice pudding or cake I don't know but there is a sauce on top but it's salty not not a sweet thing yeah it's basically like a crispy mini pork dumpling it's only a thin layer on the outside though pretty much the whole thing is spk I really like it though I think I prefer this more than the chicken which was already delicious [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so we're going for the private Spa experience now otak noou I and that's one of the famous ones here so we did make a reservation here before we passed through here so we're in our private room this is 6,400 for the hour that's for all of us so yeah really good price I thought it'd be more and it's bigger than I thought so this is all ours through here you have the to toilet got the sink and even got like a scale to weigh yourself see how much weight you've lost and then it's in here nice and cozy yeah very cold how's the temperature it's good I was expecting it to be hotter it's more comfortable than I saw [Music] so I'm not sure how hot it is in here maybe 35 40° it's nice though it's it's bearable have you guys been in a like a hot spring before no no actually never no just on normal the steam room yeah Ste getting real steamed up yeah so we're not last in very long yeah like uh how long each time 6 7even minutes yeah yeah and then we're out so I read that out of the top 10 onon towns in Japan this is the only one where the water is acidic and some people say that you get even more health benefits because of that the acidity if you have like skin ailments things like that how are you feeling 10 years younger looking 10 years younger [Music] easy so we're now going to watch a um mommy demonstration which is a centuries old uh method that they would use to cool down the hot spring water in the past and they still show you how to do it I think it's in this building here hello uh four people pay card cash okay 2,800 okay all right so I read that it's best to be head on maybe here then so it's 700 per person I think it's what 20 30 minutes yeah 20 minutes [Music] [Music] Jo [Music] joee for [Music] [Applause] [Music] so it is night time now and we're going to show you you Baki in the dark it's still not Pitch whack yet but you can already see the lights the purple lights back there completely different and obviously with it being colder it's just way way way more steamy it's almost spooky looking yeah like Halloween F yeah it is like Halloween especially with the lantern there litting up incredible really unusual so we're going to make our way back to the park cuz we're also going to go to the hot spring there see how it is man it really is spooky the way yeah I can't see anything at all we came here yesterday but it wasn't like this wasn't this steamy what the hell looks like we're in a a sauna so they even have the lights on this side too starting to rain now yeah did say that it might snow that would be pretty cool too I don't know better than rain that's for sure [Music] look [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] wow the the park is looking in saying too like just as spooky so this is where we dipped our feet this morning pink light crazy there's no one around at night so I think all those people that we saw during the day a lot of them do come on the day trips a lot of the stores closed too so in the hot spring now that we're going to it's separated so we're not going to be in the same one especially cuz you uh yeah you get naked with the strangers they're not going to let men men and women together I think on the Fridays it's mixed and then you have to go in your swimwear but it's not a Friday today so yeah we're going to be separate yeah so time to get naked with a bunch of Japanese people exciting [Music] so that was really nice I ended up spending about 40 minutes in there was a really big area how did yours go it was really cool I was the only Foreigner there but it was fine and uh I think I almost fainted once too hot yeah it's really hot so when I stood up I was like oh but but I liked it and yeah with the cold weather weather outside it's really good yeah and check this out now I don't know if you can see on the camera it's so dark but it's snowing like crazy oh yeah you can definitely see that there snowing big time so it was amazing when we were set in the the hot spring the snow the steam the heat the cold the battle of the the elements oh and also it's I think it's important to mention that the ense here are tattoo friendly so that's something that we we search Ed about uh this place before and that's also why we decided to come here we don't even have that many tattoos but there are some that don't accept any at all yeah this really is amazing so bizarre [Music] a [Music] [Music] so Carl said this has been her best snowing experience ever yes ever cuz it's really beautiful with the temple and just everything here this team it's really amazing yeah it might actually be the nicest snow I've ever seen because of the setting hope it looks okay on the camera cuz it's so dark [Music] [Music] so that's going to be it here from kusatsu really enjoyed this place it might be my favorite place on the trip so far it is a destination just for a quick trip though in about 2 days you can see pretty much everything and that's even going at a relaxed pace but there are other things you can do in the area as we mentioned you can ski things like that that would be pretty cool doing skiing and then after being a able to come to a place like this and relaxing in the hot springs and in the next video we're going to be getting on the bullet train back to Tokyo and we'll be doing some more things around there and hopefully the cherry blossom season will have started so it will be extra beautiful if you like this one just drop a like as usual to support us subscribe to see more videos like this follow us on Instagram and we'll see you in the next one [Music]
2024-04-26 18:40
