A combination spa and amusement park may become reality, thanks to a tongue-in-cheek video from the Japanese city of Beppu – famous for its more than 2,000 onsen, or hot springs.

The video, which has received almost 1.4 million views as of this writing, shows guests sitting waist deep in hot springs-filled roller coasters, cable cars and Ferris wheels, and walking through the park clad only in towels.



Beppu’s mayor, Yasuhiro Nagano, promised to make the ‘spa-musement park’ a reality if the video got 1 million views, which it surpassed yesterday.

“We weren’t expecting this many views, but we sure are happy,” Michitaka Kubota, a spokesman for Beppu’s tourist department, told The Japan Times.

Kubota did acknowledge that the ‘spa-musement park’ would probably not appear quite as it’s shown in the video.

“It’s only an image,” Kubota told The Japan Times. “We are still discussing safety issues, for example, whether we could actually run hot water inside a roller coaster. But the rides will be something fun.”