For her graduation thesis, Mizuki Tanaka, then an art history student at Meiji Gakuin University, chose to explore how the motif of Mount Fuji evolved into the most commonly used in murals decorating ...

Japan’s traditional “sentō” public bathhouses are dwindling in number even as “super sentō” and other kinds of large-scale bathing and leisure facilities enjoy increasing popularity. “Sentō” public ...

Sentō, or public bathhouses in Japan has been around since the 6th Century. Initially introduced as buddhism ritual to cleanse the body of impurities, the bathing culture gradually became part of ...

The area called Haneda, where the airport of that name now stands, began as a land reclamation project kicked off by a person named Suzuki Yagoemon in the eighteenth century. He built levees around ...

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Covid accelerated a decline but a new breed of bathhouse is reimagining a Japanese tradition It is a Japanese ritual that stretches back centuries: stripping off in the company of friends and ...

Originally hailing from France, Stephanie Crohin has embraced an aspect of Japanese culture that many expats can probably recall shying away from: sentō (public baths). As an official "sentō ...

As summer comes to an end, and the cooler weather of autumn starts to kick in, the time for appreciating rest and relaxation begins. One of Tokyo’s most famous sento bathhouses – Kosugiyu in Koenji – ...