地獄谷のサル – Monkeys in Onsen

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There is a park in Nagano Prefecture, Japan where you can watch Japanese monkeys taking a bath.  This is one specific type of monkey called a Snow Monkey.  The park is specially designed to keep these monkeys as wild as possible and to strictly control tourists.  For example visitors are not allowed to feed the monkeys so that monkeys won’t harass or try to follow tourists.  But for those who want closer contact, there is an inn nearby where monkeys may join you while you take a bath in onsen outside.