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Easy reservation for your spa experience

Japanese spa is a unique experience you should try when you have a chance to go to Japan. When you slowly get in into a huge bath tub of hot springs, you might mutter to yourself like "Ah… this is like Heaven!" as Japanese people do in a great comfort.

The experience would be very different from what you expect from Western style spa (at least, many spas in the US). In many cases, a spa exists in Japanese Inns called Ryokan. There, many people enjoy spa before and even after great dinner that is inclusive for your stay. What if you think Japanese spa is just for women, you're wrong. Men and women love it. In fact, I have never ever met a Japanese person who dislikes Japanese spa.

The difficult part of the great experience was, at least for non-Japanese speaking people, making a reservation at a Japanese Inn. There are many fantastic Japanese Inn that have no English web site, unfortunately.

I happened to find a solution for that. The Japanese Guest Houses (http://japaneseguesthouses.com ) is exactly for that. On the site, you can search Inns at your destination and make your reservation in English. Also, they have excellent pages that describe fabulous bathing experiences at spas.

So, I strongly recommend adding a stay in Japanese inn to your itinerary. That will definitely be a highlight of your business trip and a great chance to know depth of Japanese culture.

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A good introduction of Japanese inn "Ryokan"

Here is a good article about Japanese inn which we call "Ryokan".

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/04/22/japanese.inns/index.html

If you have time during your business trip, it's good idea to stay at this kind of place to know Japanese culture.