Not Tattoo
In Japan, in the vast majority of the Onsen (bath typical Japanese) do not let go with tattoos.
In principle this is because the Yakuza (Japanese mafia) have many tattoos, and people can confuse someone with tattoos with a Yakuza and input fear of bathing in the onsen.
This I knew for a long time, but I always entered the doubt if they've spent a small tattoo so it is clear that you're not a Yakuza. Last weekend I found my answer to see a poster of a water park in Tokyo where he put "No tattoo," accompanied by two photos, one with a guy with tattooed across his back and another of a girl with a small tattoo on the arm. Moreover, it came accompanied with the text:
"It will be denied entry to the pool Yumiuri Land Wai people with tattoos (including imitations). Besides the money will be returned after being denied entry. "
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umm interesting, well away from entering any Yakuza, but by the simple fact of having one tattoo that no longer let you enter do not see very well jeje
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Well, it seems excessive to me, I have a tattoo on the elbow and I certainly am not a Yakuza. A discriminatory measure that shows no sense that Japan is not all that glitters gold. That has been my academic latter opera.
PS: congratulations on the blog boss!
At the end after everyone has a bias against a race, ethnic group. If you think about it ... we all have a bias.
And the Westerners with tattoos are also "possible Yakuza" and denied us entry? (I have no tattoos, but it must be a p ***** for instance go to japan on vacation and do not let go ...)
It depends on what point of view I think it looks good or bad, but like you, not being able to go into a place like this where you've gone on vacation is to put a ^^^^.
On the other hand, I do not know of the Yakuza (only in movies, etc.). And now I do not want to see them nor, for that most na see them and I can not bathe ... jaja
And finally, if the Yakuza are so dangerous and are recognized by their tattos, how that does not stop? Or I do not know ... I know Japan and the day-to-day ...
Greetings!
Women also? and a Western woman q eh xD
I see it normal to do so, or if not. The tattoos are associated with crime in the vast majority of cases, not all. For example You enter a public restroom knowing can be canis within that? I at least did not, and the vast majority of them are distinguished by tattoos and medallions.
Greetings!
PS: As if in Castellón not used the word Cani, or for those who do not know, the Frikipedia brings a juicy article on the matter.
http://www.frikipedia.es/friki/Cani
In the signboard does not put anything of foreigners, so I suppose that if you are abroad, if you wear a tattoo is not allowed to enter.
What of the Yakuza could be something like gypsies in Spain. Normalmelte there is a lot of crime among the Roma, but they are not going to stop someone just for being gypsy.
The same thing happened with the Yakuza, are not going to arrest someone for being full of tattoos, you first have to know if you've done something or not.
"NO will be returned (guns?) After the money ..."
Oops, I thought get a tattoo soon! Well I suppose that if it's really in the arm or the like, you can cover with a simple Bender or even a bracelet is not it? Or you have to be 100% naked to go to a public bathroom?
I was kicked out of a SPA in Yokohama by a sun that I have in the back, METI me knowing that I could throw, after an hour abuelete a Japanese kid to be one of the employees and told me to clarify and Pa Street .
The most curious esque in the sauna had a Japanese with all the tattooed leg and nobody said anything, had no balls.
Recently, many Japanese are tattoos with Westerners, not bone Yakuza.
It's like you say, but the Japanese are more cautious and prefer to be trouble.
If you let someone with a small tattoo and then wants to enter a Yakuza, as you say no? There is already a customer inside with a tattoo ... is that it is stupid and that it is beyond common sense ... but I prefer to remove the problems from the beginning ...
And yet there are many onsen where they are not as strict ...
Well, not me, but luckily I got the tattoo is perfectly concealed a swimsuit
wow, it seemed logical at the public baths ... but carry a small tattoo on a park aquatica ... Maybe a little exaggerated
greetings!
on the balls of hiroito! , Do that at this time is likely to take ass.
jeje this weird look, do not say this as a Mafia mobster and is always a fear as you deveria give ordinary person, but I did not know, nor read nor heard - (clear not live aya) that Yakusa do something against strong the common people, in fact, until a friend told me a story that some Yakusa a look because it "called" Money given for some drinks and days after he returned without asking, of course now greeted him kindly and to them as good neighbors xD.
I also had that question since I learned of the issue of tattoos in Japan.
A measure of precaution, but a bit too ...
hello alain,
Carmen'm from Barcelona, has long your blog that I still do not know how I came up here a long time but I'm going watching, thank you for explaining so many things ... I am very interested in japan because it is a journey not yet have.
Here I let you on my blog if you want to spend, is a blog in which I have carried out a challenge ...
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thank you very much for the blog and hope not to disturb
already fairly nuisance placing propaganda in your blog
I'm sorry my intention was not to bother .... it was not propaganda but something reciprocal, but I repeat again and apologize ...
but since that annoy ?¿?!!!! tetasperu has bothered you so much?
okay, a new blog interesting!
The topic of tattoos, it's a bit sad, I have tattoos and I ever hope to go to japan, and of course, it will be difficult to go into any public restroom and such, but good .... Even so I like tattoos and I see no evil. but for taste, color!
A greeting!
Chao!
Carmen, your blog seems to me fantastic, very good idea and I hope that we get.
Do not bother putting anything in your link, on the contrary, enriching a bit this blog awash with purely commercial links.
And do not matter to pervert this, there is more to do with his blog to see what kind of person is.
Alain forgive but not to create bad roll, is what it is.
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Here in the Nagoya area is also not allowed entry to people who carry one tattoo, no matter the size, both in the onsen, swimming pools or artificial beaches.
Do not you find meaning but ultimately the rules of duenho from home (Japan) must be respected.
Greetings from Nagoya (Japan).
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It is curious how different cultures provoke a general prohibition on like this. A fact aesthetic, or well regarded in some countries, can instill fear in others, and fear that cause rejection at the public baths.
The most curious.
Well putada go, it caught me by surprise ... so we can not enter or * with a swimming pool or park a Aquático sauna or when he goes to japan?
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The truth is that we already knew from before, so the Yakuza, though ... which does not leave to enter an onsen a (a) Gaijin honest with your loved one tattoo, it seems to me too
(although I understand it, or that all or none) ...
Anyway, I know what I can not do in my future vacation to the Land of the Rising Sun ... T_T