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On a recent concert tour in Japan, I had the chance to visit several thermal baths and to chat with people about the tradition of bathing. I was fascinated by their differences with American spas.

KANONJI, Kagawa Prefecture—Through several twists and turns, a company that supplied bricks for what is now the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima is now a hot spring facility with the most different ...

It was a cold February day in northern Japan, snow piled high outside the onsen locker room windows as I slipped out of my clothes. Nervously, I stepped into the plumes of steam wafting from the next ...

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TOKYO >> Japan is proud of its bathing traditions. For many Westerners, though, the fact that these traditions involve being naked with strangers is awkward at best, even though men and women bathe ...

Enjoying the fragrance of a hinoki bathtub is one of the great pleasures of Japanese bathing culture. Now imagine being completely enclosed in a hinoki sauna with the steam drawing out those same ...

Your best friend sees a side of you that few people do: From the first time they see you cry to the point where you’ll happily share a toilet cubicle, there isn’t much you wouldn’t do in front of them ...