Yunessun in Unison

At the tail end of our trip to Singapore, we took one last day of vacation to head back to Hakone to try out Yunessun, the fabulous spa resort. We bought half price tickets from the Navy base and drove two hours. Then after donning our gender-specific cover-ups, we enjoyed a full day of going from one hot bath to the next.














Some baths were inside with a normal pool-like atmosphere.


Except that they were really nice and warm. And more notably, some were green (I hope that's not why they called it an "Ancient" bath); purple; or full of salt like the Dead Sea (although I was alive with the pain of freshly shaved legs, so only Brian tested its flotation properties to the fullest.)

And some baths were outside in a more natural section of the resort called "Yutopia." That is, if you call bathing in coffee, wine, sake, or green tea "natural."

As you can see, we had a very enjoyable day together. The echos of many joyous (mostly Japanese) screams would've masked them anyway, but no one had any temper tantrums. Miranda didn't want a nap or need her "binky" at all. And we were moving fast enough from pool to pool so as to not bore Sydney. Thus, I think this qualifies as Yunessun in unison...even if we're not all looking good in the "quintessential Japanese bath" photo. If we could just remove Miranda's hand to reveal Sydney's face, we could take away the Y in Yutopia; it was that fun.