Maple Syrup Baths Will Indulge Your Love For Pancakes

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Hey now, hey now, this is what dreams are made of! While bathing in your favorite foods may seem like just a fantasy, Hakone Kowakien Yunessun — a hot spring theme park in Japan — is making your dreams a reality. This is the same admired theme park where spa guests once relaxed in tubs of ramen, green tea, red wine, sake, coffee and now sweet maple syrup-scented baths to celebrate the 60th anniversary of a Japanese pancake mix company, Morinaga. 

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The breakfast food-themed bath has aromatic notes of vanilla and according to a piece by Japan Today, staff will pour bottles of real maple syrup into the bath three times a day, so you know you’re bathing in the good stuff. There are nude sections of the spa but this particular area is for people wearing swimsuits, so it’s an ideal place to take the family or go with friends.

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Hakone Kowakien Yunessun is about two hours from Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station (the station recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s busiest transport hub). The hot cake bath will be available now through April 25. Settling into this pancake lovers dream is said to have a moisturizing effect on your skin and will supposedly promote blood circulation, although prepare to get sticky in the process.