Entering the onsen is simple; there's a wooden gate on this floor where, if you push your way inside, is a simple reception desk and two doors; one leads to a little space where you can pick up bathing supplies and get changed in a stall, and the other leads... outside.
Or, it looks like the outside. It smells like the outside. There's a breeze and a night sky and a bright sun—but any attempts at actually leaving the premises will fail. You're in the resort hotel of your dreams, you're not actually outside. And yet, in the end, it's impossible not to feel as if it's the real thing.
More importantly, there's a whole onsen "outside"! There are trees growing along the edges, rocks line the various pools, and the water is always the perfect "ahhhh that feels great" temperature.
Being in the water here is relaxing. If your character is not necessarily one to relax, they may find it easier to do so here—there's no aphrodisiacs in the water (unless characters put it there themselves) but the staff know what the hotel is like, so there are some pools with privacy fences; not necessarily for those seeking romance in the onsen, but if you just want to bathe by yourself, too, that's fine.
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THE ONSEN
Entering the onsen is simple; there's a wooden gate on this floor where, if you push your way inside, is a simple reception desk and two doors; one leads to a little space where you can pick up bathing supplies and get changed in a stall, and the other leads... outside.
Or, it looks like the outside. It smells like the outside. There's a breeze and a night sky and a bright sun—but any attempts at actually leaving the premises will fail. You're in the resort hotel of your dreams, you're not actually outside. And yet, in the end, it's impossible not to feel as if it's the real thing.
More importantly, there's a whole onsen "outside"! There are trees growing along the edges, rocks line the various pools, and the water is always the perfect "ahhhh that feels great" temperature.
Being in the water here is relaxing. If your character is not necessarily one to relax, they may find it easier to do so here—there's no aphrodisiacs in the water (unless characters put it there themselves) but the staff know what the hotel is like, so there are some pools with privacy fences; not necessarily for those seeking romance in the onsen, but if you just want to bathe by yourself, too, that's fine.