This is a good reminder for why I never go to public pools in Japan. Snobby exclusive hotel pools are the only way to go… as long as you can handle the snobby, exclusive clientele that is almost (but not quite) as annoying as a 20-80 pee-person mix.
[...] Searching on The Net I found this interesting picture. It’s supposed to be the first swimming pool in Japan, almost 100 years ago. Even before the war it seems they already had space problems [...]
[...] Japanese people love to take baths inside really hot water(40~50 degrees Celsius). Maybe is their lack of swimming pools or maybe is just that being a volcanic island makes it easy to build baths from hot spring water. Here there is some of the basic vocabulary related to the Japanese bath culture. [...]
Comments
alex
15 August, 2007
damn, dude I don’t even see the pool \O-O/
sheerblade
15 August, 2007
That’s ingenious! Instead of water they use people! That’s pretty damn packed I’d rather go swimming in Tokyo Bay.
Kuri
15 August, 2007
Wow,, when you tell Japanese to do the wave, the don’t joke.
AS
15 August, 2007
Reminds me of a bag of skittles lol.
nhlinux
16 August, 2007
I would hate to be the life guard at that pool…. just try to find the ‘missing’ swimmer
All Atwitter » People Soup
18 August, 2007
[...] I have looked at this video three or four times and it cracks me up every time, so I thought I’d share it with you. [...]
an englishman in osaka
28 August, 2007
it wouldn’t surprise me if that water is 20% urine
sorrydaijin
02 September, 2007
20% urine and 80% people.
This is a good reminder for why I never go to public pools in Japan. Snobby exclusive hotel pools are the only way to go… as long as you can handle the snobby, exclusive clientele that is almost (but not quite) as annoying as a 20-80 pee-person mix.
marrang
08 September, 2007
It’s actually obscene to me. It disturbs me much more than any porn I have ever seen. I can’t get my head around people having to live like that.
Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan — The biggest indoor swimming pool in the worl
10 December, 2007
[...] Searching on The Net I found this interesting picture. It’s supposed to be the first swimming pool in Japan, almost 100 years ago. Even before the war it seems they already had space problems [...]
Kirainet.com - A geek in Japan — Public bath rules
18 December, 2007
[...] Japanese people love to take baths inside really hot water(40~50 degrees Celsius). Maybe is their lack of swimming pools or maybe is just that being a volcanic island makes it easy to build baths from hot spring water. Here there is some of the basic vocabulary related to the Japanese bath culture. [...]
cristi
04 February, 2008
Hey, if u are in the middle of that and u have to go to bath room? I bet u would-n go…. Neither the other 2500 japanese in these pool
Aime
28 May, 2009
Oh. It s not a scene of people packed inside the train during rush hour?