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Chocolate Bath

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Visitors paint chocolate on their cheeks while they enjoy a chocolate bath in Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan.
Chocolate Bath

Visitors at a local spa enjoy a chocolate bath on Feb. 14, 2008 in Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan.

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In Japan, women customarily gift chocolates to men on Valentine's Day and the hot spring offers the bath till March 31 to celebrate the day.

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