There are two types of bath houses in Japan: onsen and sento. While there are obvious similarities between the two – they're both communal hot-water baths and visitors must adhere to certain rules of ...

A public bath house in Tokyo is offering classes to its naked customers, hoping the experience of learning in the nude will not only be liberating but also bring back a young audience to the dying ...

Just before it opens each afternoon, elderly residents gather outside one of Tokyo's last remaining old-style bath houses carrying flannels, soap and shampoo for their regular soak. With its communal ...

TOKYO -- Amid declining numbers of Japanese public baths, which have long been social places where bathers can exchange their "bare" thoughts, new facilities overturning conventional images of ...

With its communal naked tubs, bright mural of Mount Fuji and sliding wooden entrance under a pointed roof, Inariyu is a classic example of a Japanese public bath, or sento. Once ubiquitous in crowded ...

Never had any problems visiting Santos and Onsens. But I'm not inked. When I first lived in Tokyo, way back, there was no bathroom in the one-room apartment. Used a Sento nearby. So many have ...