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from Bietigheim - Bissingen (today the partner-city of Kusatsu)

Kusatsu - Yumomi-uta - Yohohoi-bushi a historic traditional tourist show. Bathhouse personnel cool the hot spring water
by rhythmic stirring with a type of wooden spoon, accompanied by the sound of a Japanese chant
By this process, the water is cooled from its original 95 degrees (i.e. from the spring) to about 48 degrees centigrade, a more pleasant
temperature for bathing. If they simply added cold water, the healing minerals contained in the water would be diluted... - who knows?..

Of course, the paying tourists can also stir and sing along...

Sign in Kusatsu giving information about the Japanese "romantic road"

Photograph in the stairway entrance to a footbridge, close to Kusatsu