In June last year, visitors to the Shiobara hot-spring resort in Tochigi Prefecture were greeted by a notice informing them that one of the area¡¯s top attractions was now off-limits. Fudo no Yu, an outdoor bath nestled alongside a secluded forest trail, had been closed indefinitely ¡°due to repeated offenses against public morals.¡±
Shigeki Tashiro, head of the neighborhood organization responsible for managing Shiobara¡¯s public onsen (hot-spring) baths, confirmed that Fudo no Yu had been drawing a bad crowd.
¡°Groups of like-minded people would get together there on a regular basis, and watch men and women engage in indecent acts,¡± he says. ¡°It seems that adult videos were being filmed there, too.¡±
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