bath

the day before yesterday i didn't take show at night and i was gonna take it next morning.
next morning, i had a appointment for golfing in the morning, so i was gonna take shower before that, but i was so tired that i went golf anyway and i thought i can take shower after that.
golf took longer than i expected and i came back home at 3:45. but i had an appointment for a student's makeup test at 4, so i went to school without taking shower.
his makeup test took so long and i had an appointment for tutoring japanese for an american guy at 6:30, so i went there.
i felt myself sooo dirty. it's very unusual to not take shower (or bate) more than 24 hours in japan.
in the japanese-tutoring time i talked with the american guy and he said he and his wife are going to japan for a trip this week. and he said they are going to go to hot spring in japan.
he knows japan (he has lived there for 2 years), so he will be ok, but his wife might be troubled when she bath coz this is her first trip to japan. i guess she will feel ashamed when she take off all clothes in the public hot spring.

if you go to hot spring in japan, pay money first (or buy a ticket at the vending machine), then go to changing room, take off all clothes (don't worry everybody's naked), put the clothes in the coin locker, bring a small towel into the public bathing room,
sit down on a small plastic chair in front of a faucet and wash yourself with the towel first, then bath in the big tub.
also, it's better to hide your front with a towel in the bathing room, like the standing guy in the picture.







another thing to tell you is that, probably, the japanese people would talk about you when you are there, like "oh, that an american! wow, big!"
if you hear those rude japanese people, look at them and say "nan desu ka? (what did you say?)" in japanese, then they will be quiet.