No visit to Japan is complete without a visit to a bath house or hot spring and Spa LaQua is the ultimate Tokyo oasis. The ...

Public bathhouses are swiftly disappearing from Tokyo as the facilities grow older alongside their owners. The number of public baths, known as “sento,” in the capital almost halved in the ...

There are two types of bathhouses in Tokyo and throughout Japan: onsen and sento. While there are obvious similarities between the two – they're both communal hot-water baths and visitors must ...

Dr. Hayasaka Shinya of Tokyo City University specializes in research related to baths and hot springs. He says moving from a heated living room to a cold changing room or bathroom causes people's ...