Hot spring

When we were in Hokkaido, we stay and visited two hot spring resort. The first one is more like skiing resort, however, this is more summer time, so there was not snow there, which made the lower occupancy rate. The manager told us, the hotel have higher occupancy rate in winter time, there are lots of visitors and locals come here, they ski there and have hot spring after ski. Those years, because Hokkaido has the best snow around Asian area, there are more and more international visitors came, include China, Austria, Europe country and United States. This impressive me a lot, I knew there have some great skiing place in EU and US, but people from those place still came to Hokkaido. During summer time, this resort is mainly for hot spring and their small amusement park. 

The second hotel is the largest hot spring resort in Hokkaido or Japan area. They have a crater near hotel this impressive me. This is the first hot spring I went in Japan, I am impressive, I went one of the largest hot spring in China before, which is a little bit smaller than this. This one have around 7 different hot springs and also have indoor and outdoor. I did not went the outdoor one, since when I went to the hot spring was already night time, however, Nathan told me, the outdoor hot spring is really nice , you can see the mountain view there and feel the nature. I remember the manage told us, some Japanese people came here and have hot spring after them get here and have dinner then go to hot spring, then go to sleep, when they get up, they go to hot spring and then have breakfast, have hot spring and have lunch later, then go back to hot spring until they check out. This really impressive me, I did not know Japanese people love hot spring so much.

Later, I searched a little bit, because in Hokkaido, the agricultural is the largest industry which means, during snowing time, farmers have nothing to do, and because it's cold, so they would spend a lot of time in hot spring. As a result, hot spring is part of Hokkaido culture and Japan culture.

I would say it's really comfortable in hot spring, but it's a little awkward as naked.