Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The dedicated public bath has been a thing since at least 2500 BC, the origin date archaeologists give to what is known as the Great ...

Dogo Onsen, on the Japanese island of Shikoku, is believed to have been used for about 3000 years for communal cleansing. The Romans embraced the concept, and remnants of their ardour for the bath ...

I’ve been in Japan for less than 24 hours and somehow, I’ve found myself in a ruby-red basement bar watching an 89-year-old ...

Dogo Onsen bath house, one of Japan's oldest bath houses ... and the spring’s health properties were joyfully discovered. Nature, people, feelings and simplicity: just like a haiku.

Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

From taking part in traditions in Asakusa to getting lost in the playground that is Shinjuku, Tokyo is truly unique.

It’s not hard to understand why capys have a cultlike following on Instagram and TikTok. I fell for the giant rodent decades ...

“If too many people are coming and then the locals ... to increase rates for accommodation tax or the use of onsen – hot springs bath-houses. Yet these are blanket rates, and do not apply ...