Japan’s Hot Tub Rollercoaster Takes Water Parks to a New Level
A city in Japan is teasing plans of the world’s first spa-themed amusement park.
In a concept video, Beppu City on Japan’s Kyushu island showed off an idea for a new “spamusement park.” The video featured visitors at typical amusement park attractions—a carousel, ferris wheel and roller coaster—but instead of seats for each ride, there were hot tubs.
In the video, visitors entered the rides wearing only a towel—which begs the question: Are visitors to the potential site supposed to walk around in wet towels all day? Also: How does the water stay inside the ride and off electrical equipment? And how are we keeping all these rides clean?
Despite many logistical questions, the spamusement park could become reality.
The mayor of Beppu declared that once the video reached 1 million views (a somewhat low bar in 2016 for a video of people in towels riding roller coasters), the city would begin working on the onsen (hot spring) amusement park. The video has been viewed more than 2 million times since it was uploaded last week and the mayor announced in a statement that work has begun. However, it’s entirely possible that the rides shown in the video will not actually happen.
“We are still discussing safety issues, for example, whether we could actually run hot water inside a roller coaster,” a spokesperson for Beppu’s tourist department told The Japan Times. “But the rides will be something fun.”
Beppu is already an onsen tourist destination—there are more than 2,000 hot springs for visitors to choose from. However the city recently launched an initiative to become the “spa city of the world.” Last year, Beppu welcomed 437,764 foreign tourists.
No completion date for the project has yet been announced.
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credits: travel and leisure magazine, cailey rizzo, bravo
That is truly bizarre!
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it is, but i am fascinated by the unending capacity of the human mind
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This is a weird idea but if proven feasible, would surely attract a lot of people.
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i think it could -)
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Well, nowadays it seems nothing is impossible.
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I can’t see it bappening, but time will tell. It seems so unsanitary.
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Most anything is possible
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That sounds very interesting and a unique idea but still difficult to imagine how this might work. As you wrote, it does!!!
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still in the building stage so who knows where it will go ? )
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Yep, let’s observe this 😊
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Crazy but fascinating! The things people think of!!
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it really is endless, and that’s what keeps life interesting –
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Wow
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yes!
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Oh my.
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Get ready)
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Sounds interesting but I’m not sure I would be into that sort of thing. But WOW!!!
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Yes, wow!
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I seen a clip of this on TV, it is interesting in a wired way but not for me.
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Something for everyone)
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ha ha ha ha thanks…I never remotely contemplated this possibility…
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The universe is full of endless possibilities )
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This is so funny and a curious kind of entertainment, Beth! You have a unique search and “eye” for fascinating news!! 🙂
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there is always something new out there to amaze me )
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Me, too. (But it doesn’t take much for me to get excited!)
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roy, spent a summer in japan!!!
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i wish they had this coaster for him when he was there )
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lol! I’m glad they didn’t!
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fond memories
of being naked
in Tokyo’s public baths!
now this is a whole
new level 🙂
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it really does )
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Perhaps there are some wrinkles to iron out…..I’m curious how they do that. 😉
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Hahaha
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OMG hahahaha this is incredible!
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I think so too )
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Mmmm. Hope they get the weather for it!
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yes, that would be a good thing with this ride, tric )
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I just can’t help but wonder what the models in this photo are thinking.
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either they are loving it, or horrified. nothing in between i imagine
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The whole thing just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen! Wouldnt the water just be getting everywhere and where would you keep all your valuables?
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There are so many potential scary scenarios with this)
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Honest to god I wish I could be in the meeting when an idea like this is brought to the table….and when everyone thinks it’s “ok” to bring it to life, along with the meeting on inflatable christmas decorations that make NO CHRISTMAS sense at all!
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Those would meetings I would love!
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That sounds ridiculous, but more power to them!
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absolutely
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Lol! Does not seem very sanitary at all. Too funny
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you are so right and i feel like ‘sanitary’ is not even a consideration in this equation )
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Lol! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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I would so do this….a fusion of two things I love…roller coaster spa!!!!
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Maybe you can go and write about it!
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