"My first onsen experience in Beppu, a town often shrouded in water vapor on the southern island of Kyushu, converted me into a furo-aholic (bath-aholic) in the early 1990s.
Two decades later, i still find the magical waters an endless source of visual and visceral pleasure."
- Mark Edward Harris
y explorations of Japan’s mystical hot springs began three decades ago with lead bags full of Kodak Tri-x and Ilford 3200. The grain of the latter seemed particularly well matched to the feeling of the steam-filled indoor baths.
