Does This Washcloth Make Me Look Fat?

The eternal question . . .

A reasonable question, at least in the mind of a woman.

There I was, about to arrive at the Sukayu Onsen Ryokan, traditional Japanese mountainside inn, built around and over thermal hot springs. My fellow cruise mates and I would soon enter the unknown through the onsen, the beloved Japanese bathing experience. In this small island of Honshu, one of many in the Japanese archipelego, volcanoes, both…