Japanese has a word for "become one body with"

We took the train to Shimoda for the weekend.

If you are searching the internet for things to do on eastern side of the Izu Peninsula, I have a few ideas. You should rent a car if you can. There's basically one winding main road that runs up the east side and a few buses that crawl along it once or twice an hour. So it's easy to drive without getting lost, and hard to get around without a car.

This picture is the women's outdoor onsen at Akazawa DHC* hotspring resort. The similar men's bath is one floor up. There are other baths and saunas inside, including tea-cup-ride-size individual terra cotta bath tubs infused with aloe vera and DHC. There are beautiful private baths for up to 6 people, charged by the hour. You can get hotel rooms there with private outdoor baths and use the tennis courts, swimming pool, and bowling alley. The 1600-yen (almost 16 bucks) day pass gets you the baths, piles of towels, an unparalleled variety of toiletries, a tatami lounge room with coin-operated massage chairs facing the ocean, and a crowded gift shop with generous samples of all their cakes, shrimp crackers, and tea.

The ad that led us there promised that their infinity pool baths (or you?) "become one body with the sea." That was indeed the effect if you sunk down to chin level in the water.

Tranquility.

If you sat up a little higher you could see cars winding along the road we had just come up. The effect of that was hurried recall of that drive and whether you had noticed any naked people up on the balcony above and if not, was it because it wasn't visible from the road or because you just hadn't known to look, and come to think of it, there are all sorts of buildings you can see from here and if you can see them.... ahh, chin deep is lovely.

*(DHC is a magical cosmetics ingredient that seems to be the sponsor of this place - it is in not only the name of every single facility and all the free body and hair care products, but in the bottled water and the currant sauce for the ice cream.)

UPDATE: I am totally confused. DHC is a catalog cosmetics brand, not a chemical. That makes the DHC swimming pool less dubious, and the DHC bowling alley stranger.