Rainy season ideas: ⑩ hot springs

So far in this series of "rainy season ideas" I have introduced more ways to embrace the outdoors than ways to escape it! This one, is an idea for someone who wants to get out of the rain! Hot springs are a great idea any time of the year, but I personally, as an outdoor lover, like to save my hot spring trips to a rainy day. I find rainy season the perfect time for a visit.

Obviously, one of the benefits is that you can avoid the rain. But I really recommend that if the hot spring you visit has an outdoor spring, a rotemburo, that you use it too. They are usually covered with a picturesque bamboo or wooden roof. There is nothing quite like sitting in an outdoor bath, listening to the rain dancing off a bamboo or wooden roof as well as the cobblestones or slate paving that are so common at a Japanese hot spring. 

The hot spring pictured in the photo in this post hangs 'teru teru bozu', Japanese charms to ward off rain, at this time of year, which is an added incentive to visit during the rainy season. Do you like to visit hot springs during rainy season?