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...hotel designed around a western theme "sounded like a dude ranch," he says. Instead, the marketing manager from San Jose, Calif., found rooms decorated with authentic baskets and pottery from the Pima and Maricopa tribes; an upscale spa that offered such Indian-inspired treatments as tashogith, a clarification bath using juniper and cypress; and the Kai restaurant, which features dishes like lobster with fry bread, a Native American staple. Says Stonecipher: "It turned out to be anything but hokey...
When Berry comes out of the water, her teeth are chattering. The locals say April was never this frigid, this windy--"Nunca," they insist, never--until the week she had to pretend the icy Atlantic was the bath-warm Gulf of Mexico and shoot Scene 102, her big entrance as Jinx, the mysterious assassin in the new Bond film Die Another...
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...While most onsen offer a cozy, over-sized tub feeling, the Kanaya is a steaming behemoth of a bath, half the length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool. A thousand people might be hyperbole (a hundred is more like it), but so what? With wood paneling, high ceilings, statues of frolicking nymphs and a rotenburo, or outdoor bath, this steamy classic offers bathers the chance to par-boil in elegance or cool off under the night...
...more thing separates the Kanaya from other onsen: mixed-gender bathing, a custom Townsend Harris found "indelicate" for "a people so generally correct." A separate ladies' bath exists, but the main room is available for both sexes to come and go as they please. Generally prohibited by the American authorities in post-war Japan, these old-style onsen are a rare find. If you get the chance, give it a try. Just don't stare...