The COOLEST Place In JAPAN! 🇯🇵 Kusatsu Onsen

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
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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
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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]
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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
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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 
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 
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