Book Retreats released its Holiday Relaxation Report, which ranked the best relaxation destinations around the world, ...

Another hot room in a tent can withstand ... the ultimate goal of turning it into Japan’s best sauna facility packed with visitors won over by the hot bath sanctuary,” he said.

Built in 1894, the traditional Japanese-style wooden public bath consists of three storeys, with a sentinel-like egret perched atop the “Shinrokaku” cupola. Under its stiffened feathers are ...

People in Japan love bathing in hot springs, or onsen.And since the old days, it has been common for people to check into residential hot-spring inns for extended stays to boost their health, heal ...

They think that they won't be able to do anything without taking a bath. You know how fit the Japanese people are and how long they live. The main reason for this is their habit of taking a bath ...

The Japanese coined the phrase forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, in 1982, when the nation's forestry ministry made relaxing among trees part of its national public health program. Forests blanket ...