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Extreme Sauna Trip Korean style in the great Miyagi and a secret cave found in Fukushima. Sauna Trip 2021 Autumn Vol.2
MONTHLY JOURNAL Oct. 2021

Extreme Sauna Trip Korean style in the great Miyagi and a secret cave found in Fukushima. Sauna Trip 2021 Autumn Vol.2

I want to travel. My patience is at the end of its rope. When the Corona settles down, I want to fly away like a dog released from its leash. So where to go? It is more fun to have a clear goal than to travel aimlessly. The answer we came up with was a trip to visit saunas in the Tohoku region, known as a "sa travel. We did some research beforehand and found that saunas in Tohoku are not well known, but we were more curious about the saunas in Tohoku. So, let's go to a sauna that is unique to Tohoku. This is a record of my "Sa-Travel" expedition, which took me to a total of five saunas in two days and one night, covering a total distance of more than 1,000 km.

The Korean style was so great.

Sweat steam bath

67-1 Minamimae, Ichinasaka, Izumi-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi
hanjunmakunoyu.jp
Fee: ¥1,050

The name of the bathhouse is "Sweat Steam Tent No Yu" (汗蒸幕のゆ) or "Sweat Steam Tent No Yu. It may be common knowledge, since it is converted into kanji with a single stroke when typing "Hanjunmaku".

But we, the uninitiated, had no idea that such a sauna existed.

The domed sauna, with its piled stones, is a Japanese version based on the traditional Korean thermal therapy sauna.

The explanation is that the germanium-bearing ondolite...Home PageIn other words, the dome-shaped piles of stones generate far-infrared rays, which reflect heat and warm the body from the core. Indeed, the amount of sweat that flows is extraordinary. Compared to the usual Finnish sauna, the sweat comes out faster. And, to borrow a phrase from this facility, the sweat is "thick. After that, I took my usual course of a water bath and an outdoor air bath, and was completely refreshed.

Saunas know. They know that in order to be deeply connected to the body, it is important to warm up from the core of the body, not from the surface of the skin. The greatness of far-infrared radiation is 100 times better understood by feeling it than by understanding it theoretically.

Incidentally, the amount of sweat that flows is so great that every night after closing time, the floor is cleaned by lifting up the flooring. You would have to have a love of saunas to do such a thing. The president of this sauna center went to Korea to inspect saunas and decided that the sweat steam room was the only sauna he could find, so he brought it to Japan.

Hwangto sauna. Hwangto (yellow earth) has excellent humidity control and heat release properties.

Rocky sauna refers to a sauna piled high with sauna stones, and as the name implies, it comes from the Rocky Mountains.

Rocky sauna refers to a sauna piled high with sauna stones, and as the name implies, it comes from the Rocky Mountains.

In addition, there are two more saunas available. One is a loess sauna, which has been handed down in Korea for centuries like the sweat pavilions, and the other is the Rocky Sauna, which was developed in the pursuit of the authentic Finnish sauna. The former allows you to lie on the floor like a bedrock bath, while the latter allows you to experience refreshing perspiration while being enveloped in negative ions. With three types of saunas rich in individuality, "Sweat Steam Tub No Yu" is truly a sauna theme park.

To mannayo (see you again), hanjunmak. Our sa journey continues.