The doctor will eat you now

We did that thing where you stick your feet into a pond full of fishies ravenous for dead human skin. Now, of course, this sounds like a great - actually, no, it sounds insane, like it might make you shreik and squirm and have disturbed flash backs for a while.
Even though the nibbling feels like a painless field of mild electroshocks, a quick peek reminds you that it is in fact the tickly defeat of jillions of years of evolution happening between your toes. I wasn't sure what they were actually doing, though. They have little vacuum mouths and suck around like they're cleaning an aquarium. But they didn't congregate at callouses.
In this pic, taken by another skeptical foreigner who had smuggled a cellphone into his yukata, the swarm had already mostly moved on to fresher feet.
The critters are called "Dr. Fish." I had seen them on "look what the crazy Asians are up to" AP features last year. There are a million YouTube videos of it. Check them out, if you want your nightmares for free.

We paid 1500 yen for 15 minutes at Ooedo Onsen Monogatari in Odaiba, Tokyo. General admission to the baths, including yukata, bath amenities and old-timey Japanese carnival games, is about 3000. Lots of restaurants and additional massage treatment options for additional fees, all scanned onto a wristband barcode. You can also spend the night in a recliner for that price, if you don't mind a lounge full of snorers.