Japanese Spa Has Ramen Bath!

OK, I admit it, I love ramen noodles. I used to eat them long before I became a poor ex-college student living on a limited budget, and I still eat them quite regularly. Well, while perusing the archives over at The Cellar Image of the Day (great site by the way with lots of unique and interesting pictures, go check them out) I came across a picture and a link to a story that was a little hard to swallow (no pun intended): a spa in Japan has opened a ramen bath, complete with peppery water and bath salt "noodles." Yep, you read that right, bathers get to basically become the ingredients in a giant bowl of ramen. According to the story at JapanProbe (found here: Japanese Theme Park Opens Ramen Bath)

"The bath, shaped like a ramen bowl, contains pepper-flavored water colored a light, milky brown, to like tonkotsu (pork bone) ramen soup. The special bath was created jointly by the theme park and a famous ramen shop, Nantsuttei in Hadano, Kanagawa Prefecture"

And apparently ramen baths aren't the only "food" bath the spa offers. They also have a green tea bath (as seen in the photo), a coffee bath, a red wine bath, and even a sake bath! Makes your normal bubble bath seem tame in comparison, doesn't it!