Tachypsychia 13 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Wife just confirmed she had a stranger (native) wash her back in hirosaki. Guess it happens randomly. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Women rubbing other women's backs.....I'm TOTALLY fine with that!! Link to post Share on other sites
69 5 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Yes, rampant lesbians are way cool. Link to post Share on other sites
seemore 66 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Just googled it and there are a few references to it. If someone offered I would decline though. Link to post Share on other sites
Biggen 3 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 http://www.netplaces...eone-offers.htm I've never seen this custom in 11 years of living and going to onsens in Japan http://www.netplaces...eone-offers.htm Education is a wonderful. I suggest your in need of it come to commenting on Japan. 11 years you say! Are you a ignorant person and inept to the locals, there customs and feeling? Or is it that you can take the boy out of the United Kingdom but can not take United kingdom out of the boy? That was such a foolish remark to issue on a Japanese/English public forum. If you do not agree with information on this public forum I suggest some research on a reputable search engine like Google! Surely you have heard of this site.I Think not by the attitude you have display about this subject. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Dear oh dear. That told you Tubbs! Rampant lesbians. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 It may well be an old custom but I do not think it is common place. I would guess that it also will have less relevance as the years go on as well. In my many years in Japan, I have never seen it or been offered. Thankfully. Obviously I am also in need of an education. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Watch out Ski!! You must be an ignorant gaijin!! Pies...I think Dawson is in need of a little cry! Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Biggen......come on.....all Tubby said was that "He" has never seen it in the 11 years he has been here. I'll be "foolish" too and say I've never seen it and I've been here for 20 years. Of course there are instances of the old custom but if it was really that common there is no way I wouldn't have seen it by now. We aren't attacking or denying it doesn't exist....we're just saying maybe it's not as it was in the....say, Meiji, Taisho or Showa era's. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 My wife is also inept of locals and she has never heard of that either......maybe she hasn't lived here long enough Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Sounds like it. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 The first time I knew about the back washing custom was from my father in law many years ago. He told me that it is quite normal between close friends and family to do this at an onsen, although I have never been offered it luckily, and I have seen the back washing thing done a few times at some of the onsens I have been to, (I have been to maybe a few hundred actually) and only seen it a few times so it doesn't happen that often. Don't know if it is a dying custom or a custom that never really took off. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Back to those bath salt/powder things. I like them too. Which one should we have today. Girly, but yes, I like it. We had one the other day that was almost....... slimey. Actually not almost, it was slimey. Wasn't too keen on that one. Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 It may be a custom, a quirk, or a habit, but no thanks. But washing my son's back comes very naturally to me. After I've done that he goes off to put the ice water into the hot onsen to every oyagi's annoyance while I wash myself and pretend I don't know the little monkey. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 So we might actually be talking about monkeys then? Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 oh yes Link to post Share on other sites
Tachypsychia 13 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Finally got around to getting some of those bath tablets. Got some for smell and some that are supposed to help sore muscles. Don't know if they work but they leave you smelling good and the bath helps the muscles on its own. Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I prefer the onsen powder ones. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 Yes me too the onsen ones are cool. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 This series is good When you say tablets are they the ones that kind of fizz? Link to post Share on other sites
Tachypsychia 13 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Yup they're very simillar and the ones you helped me find a few weeks back Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 The 十和田 one last night was good. I think that might even be fairly close to you! Link to post Share on other sites
Tachypsychia 13 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 You're in 青森県?! I was in Towada a little bit back looking for a board and visiting a friend. Didn't get a chance to visit any onsens though. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 Haha, no. The bath powder sachet I used was Towada. It was good, nice smell. Link to post Share on other sites
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