I was a bit early for the dinner party when I arrived in Kure, a port city in Hiroshima Prefecture (where the battleship Yamato was built), so I searched for a local bath house on google maps. At first

Public bathhouses are very popular in Japan. You can take a bath there, relax and also socialize. For many Japanese, visiting bathhouses is an everyday part of taking care of themselves. I have never been

The Japanese have taken the art of bathing to a whole new level; transcendence. Years ago, most Japanese homes did not have any bathing facilities, let alone a bathtub or a shower. When people needed to