KAGOSHIMA – “Is the temperature alright for you ma’am?” my Japanese attendant asks in a polished U.S. accent as he cheerfully heaps another pile of hot sand on my torso.
“It’s perfect.”
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Buried alive: A customer is covered in sand at Yamakawa Tsunamushi Onsen Sayuri. | KATHRYN WORTLEY
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