Models display a Chiba hotel's new 50 kilo 18 carat gold bath. The bath is valued at 120 million yen. Perhaps the guard has to be present at all times
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by Mulboyne » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:37 pm
Models display a Chiba hotel's new 50 kilo 18 carat gold bath. The bath is valued at 120 million yen. Perhaps the guard has to be present at all times
For more gold, see FG Thread: A Little Something For Your Sake
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by amdg » Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:52 pm
Mr Kobayashi: First, I experienced a sort of overpowering feeling whenever I was in the room with foreigners, not to mention a powerful body odor coming from them. I don't know whether it was a sweat from the heat or a cold sweat, but I remember I was sweating whenever they were around.
- Otaru Onsen Oral Testimony
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Keep staring, I might do a trick.
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Noriko you whore!
- Otaru Onsen Oral Testimony
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Keep staring, I might do a trick.
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Noriko you whore!
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by Mulboyne » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:03 pm
Story in English.
Reuters: Japan's top bullion house unveils 18k gold bathtub
Japan's top bullion house has created an 18K gold bath for a hotel chain, which is hoping the glittering tub will draw more visitors to its seaside hot springs. Tanaka Kikinzoku on Tuesday unveiled the first of six golden bathtubs -- worth 120 million yen (600 million pounds [Actually 600 thousand pounds as noted below by amdg]) apiece -- that it will provide for the Mikazuki group of hotels in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo. Tanaka Kikinzoku offers a variety of items made from the precious metal, ranging from toothpicks to buddha statues, at its store in Tokyo's trendy Ginza shopping district. It said it used 50 kg of gold for the tub, which is roughly 1.2 metres long and 65 cm deep, and about 30 kg of stainless steel to add strength. This is the second golden bathtub made by Tanaka Kikinzoku, which produced its first in 1964. A spokeswoman for the Mikazuki group said it would not charge extra for use of the golden tub, which, like most baths in Japanese hot spring resorts, will be communal. "We will probably put it in a separate room, however, for security reasons," she said.
Reuters: Japan's top bullion house unveils 18k gold bathtub
Japan's top bullion house has created an 18K gold bath for a hotel chain, which is hoping the glittering tub will draw more visitors to its seaside hot springs. Tanaka Kikinzoku on Tuesday unveiled the first of six golden bathtubs -- worth 120 million yen (600 million pounds [Actually 600 thousand pounds as noted below by amdg]) apiece -- that it will provide for the Mikazuki group of hotels in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo. Tanaka Kikinzoku offers a variety of items made from the precious metal, ranging from toothpicks to buddha statues, at its store in Tokyo's trendy Ginza shopping district. It said it used 50 kg of gold for the tub, which is roughly 1.2 metres long and 65 cm deep, and about 30 kg of stainless steel to add strength. This is the second golden bathtub made by Tanaka Kikinzoku, which produced its first in 1964. A spokeswoman for the Mikazuki group said it would not charge extra for use of the golden tub, which, like most baths in Japanese hot spring resorts, will be communal. "We will probably put it in a separate room, however, for security reasons," she said.
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by amdg » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:09 pm
Mulboyne wrote:worth 120 million yen (600 million pounds) apiece
600 thousand pounds.
Mr Kobayashi: First, I experienced a sort of overpowering feeling whenever I was in the room with foreigners, not to mention a powerful body odor coming from them. I don't know whether it was a sweat from the heat or a cold sweat, but I remember I was sweating whenever they were around.
- Otaru Onsen Oral Testimony
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Keep staring, I might do a trick.
--------------------------
Noriko you whore!
- Otaru Onsen Oral Testimony
--------------------------
Keep staring, I might do a trick.
--------------------------
Noriko you whore!
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by amdg » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:22 pm
Mulboyne wrote: A spokeswoman for the Mikazuki group said it would not charge extra for use of the golden tub, which, like most baths in Japanese hot spring resorts, will be communal.
I might be making a short visit to that onsen in the near future.
Mr Kobayashi: First, I experienced a sort of overpowering feeling whenever I was in the room with foreigners, not to mention a powerful body odor coming from them. I don't know whether it was a sweat from the heat or a cold sweat, but I remember I was sweating whenever they were around.
- Otaru Onsen Oral Testimony
--------------------------
Keep staring, I might do a trick.
--------------------------
Noriko you whore!
- Otaru Onsen Oral Testimony
--------------------------
Keep staring, I might do a trick.
--------------------------
Noriko you whore!
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by amdg » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:28 pm
Mr Kobayashi: First, I experienced a sort of overpowering feeling whenever I was in the room with foreigners, not to mention a powerful body odor coming from them. I don't know whether it was a sweat from the heat or a cold sweat, but I remember I was sweating whenever they were around.
- Otaru Onsen Oral Testimony
--------------------------
Keep staring, I might do a trick.
--------------------------
Noriko you whore!
- Otaru Onsen Oral Testimony
--------------------------
Keep staring, I might do a trick.
--------------------------
Noriko you whore!
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by Mulboyne » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:09 am
It seems this gold bath idea had a precedent in Japan:
TIME: Solid Gold Tub (1980)
TIME: Solid Gold Tub (1980)
Once upon a time, a savvy Japanese hotelman named Hideki Yokoi came up with the ultimate gimmick. He spent $300,000 for a phoenix-shaped, 22-karat, solid gold bathtub, and installed it 14 years ago in the basement of his Funabara resort hotel about 100 miles south of Tokyo. A bit larger than normal, the tub holds a cramped two, and Yokoi was able to charge honeymooners and Very Good Friends $2.80 apiece for a five-minute soak that he claimed would prolong their lives for at least one year. For $4, a photographer burnished the moments for posterity. With gold selling these days at roughly $667 per oz., the tub has become a bonanza. It is now worth $2.5 million, and the number of customers has jumped 50% since gold prices surged in mid-1979. About half the 100,000 guests who go to the hotel every year take the plunge. Today they are each soaked for $20, and the photographs―in color―are $8 a shot. Hideki Yokoi's good fortune is not unalloyed: he worries about protecting his treasure. Now he requires that his male receptionist inspect the bathers before they undress to see if they are carrying hammers, gimlets or any other sharp instruments. Scrapes and scratches have appeared mysteriously on the tub, and Yokoi fears that his guests might be trying to recoup their costs under their fingernails.
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