>>2682681I've heard rumors that some local community sento will have signs saying "no foreigners" (which in Japan includes Koreans as much as westerners), but foreigners are expected at onsen and ryokan which are specifically for tourism. But in any event tattoos are much worse (and amounts to the same thing, and in any event I agree, we should not accommodate body mods or parade that around).
If you're obviously making an effort to follow the culture, the locals are usually pleased as punch. I had more than a few conversations (usually in the baths, bars, and trains) where the locals walk up TO ME to practice their broken English and I was practicing my broken Japanese, and being able to converse like that and get local tourism advice was probably the best part of the whole trip.
>>2682727>sexual and hot, simple asAnd yet you wonder why Americans and much of the West has such high rates of body image and gender disorders? The posters here who only think of nudity as "exposing yourself" are exactly those who are unsocialized sex-crazed maniacs, rather than productive members of humanity who understand the proper role of sex as procreative.
(There's a theory in Japan part of the population decline has to do with the emergence of private single-occupancy baths leading to unsocialized youth. It's not the whole story, but I think there's something to it, especially when it comes to body image disorders.)
Pic related is the view of the ocean I enjoyed. (Actually I think that's from the women's side, but same ocean.)
