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Spamusement: Japan’s Combination Spa and Amusement Park

This has all the hallmarks of your typical Japanese variety show gag, but apparently it’s striving for reality.

Beppu is a spa resort city in Kyushu, Japan, known for its thermal pools; the city boasts over 2,000 hot springs. In a bizarre municipal initiative, this month the city has floated the idea of building a combination spa and amusement park, cleverly named the Spamusement Park Project:

As seen in the video, Beppu Mayor Yasuhiro Nagano states that the park will be constructed if the video reaches one million views. Well, at press time the ten-day-old video was up to 2,217,951 views, so it looks like they’re going to have to build this thing!

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